The facility for Remote Sensing of the Near-Earth Space Environment

The Department of Space Radio Physics that was established in 1964 at the Kharkiv V. N. Karazin National University conducts studies of the near-Earth space environment at its constituent Radiophysical Observatory that is continuously upgraded. The Radiophysical Observatory (49deg38´N, 36deg20´E) is a facility that includes the MF radar, the HF Doppler radar (at vertical and oblique incidence), the satellite radio beacon receivers, the magnetometers, and the ionosonde. The instrumentation allows to investigate the various interacting processes operating in the ionosphere within an altitude range of ~60-1000 km and the characteristics of radio-wave propagation within a frequency band of up to approximately 2 GHz, simultaneously with magnetometer measurements. The Radiophysical Observatory is included in the register of the most valuable scientific facilities in Ukraine