射电望远镜的发展和前景

The Development and Prospect of the Radio Telescopes in the World

在近代科学技术发展的基础上诞生和成长起来的射电天文学已经走过了66年的历程，作为射电天文学主要探测工具的射电望远镜有了长足的进步，面临21世纪人类社会和自然科学技术包括天文学发展的挑战，射电望远镜及射电天文学将迈出新的步伐．从射电天文学和射电望远镜发展的关系、射电望远镜几个主要发展方向和目前水平、自90年代以来逐步勾画而明确起来的未来发展方向等方面阐明了射电望远镜的发展和前景，以作为我国发展新一代射电望远镜的参考．

Based upon the development of the radio, electronics and associated sciences and technologies,the radio astronomy was born 66 years ago and grows up with brilliant achievements in lastseveral decades. The radio telescope has won a huge progress as an essential probing instrumentof the universe in the radio wavelength band. The radio telescope and radio astronomy will strideforward towards a new level facing challenges issued by development of human being society, natural science and technology including astronomy itself in the 21st century. An attempt is triedin this paper to clarify the development and the prospect of radio telescope from its relationshipwith developments of radio astronomy , the essential directions of radio telescopes, the currentstatus and development of radio telescopes in the future, which has been drawn out clearer andclearer since the 90s of the cenentury. The overview could be referred if we were planning to buildany new-generation radio telescope in our country.