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Mission Element Points-of-Contact

______________________________________The RSOG______________________________________

RSOG    RSOG@asc.rssi.ru                                              UT+3 hours
        Mikhail Popov                      mpopov@dpc.asc.rssi.ru
        Emergency messages                 RAsos@asc.rssi.ru
          Ph : +7-095-333-2512    Fax: +7-095-333-2378
                  RadioAstron Operations Room, ASC Moscow
        84/32 Profsoyuznaya st. 117810 GSP-1, Moscow, RUSSIA

The DIT (Data Interface Team)              dit@asc.rssi.ru

________________________________Ground Tracking Stations____________________________

Pushchino                                                             UT+3 hours
         Rustam Dagkessamanski             rdd@prao.psn.ru
         Ph: (095) 923-3558                Fax: (0967) 73-2482
         Pushchino Radio Astronomical Observatory,
         Pushchino, Moscow region, 142292, RUSSIA

JPL/DOTS                                                                UT-8 hours *
         support@dots.jpl.nasa.gov         Fax: +1-818-393-0042
         Emergency messages                sos@dots.jpl.nasa.gov
         Kevin Miller                      Ph: +1-818-393-0565
         Rick Wietfeldt                    Ph: +1-818-393-1134
         U.S. Space VLBI Project, JPL, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, M/S 264-664,
         Pasadena, CA 91109, USA

Green Bank Tracking Station                                             UT-5 hours *
         OVLBI operator                    ovlbiops@nrao.edu
         Glen Langston                     glangsto@nrao.edu
         Larry D'Addario                   ldaddari@nrao.edu
         Toney Minter                      tminter@nrao.edu
         Ph: +1-304-456-2219/2315          Fax: +1-304-456-2200
         NRAO, Route 92, P.O. Box 2, Green Bank, WV  24944

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_____________________________________Correlators____________________________________

Penticton Correlator                                                    UT-8 hours *
       Sean Dougherty                       sean.dougherty@hia.nrc.ca
       Brent Carlson                        Brent.Carlson@hia.nrc.ca
       Ph: +1-250-493-2277                  Fax: +1-250-493-7767
           Attn: Space VLBI, Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory,
           Hertzberg Inst. of Astrophysics, NRC of Canada,
           White Lake Rd (P.O. Box 248), Penticton, B.C., Canada V2A 6K3
       Operations email address (for tape shipment notification etc):
           vlbiop@drao.nrc.ca
       Radio Astronomy Laboratory (RAL) at Univ. of Calgary             UT-6 hours *
           Level 2 DQA [Data Quality Analysis]
       Bill Scott                           bill@ras.ucalgary.ca
       Russell Taylor                       russ@ras.ucalgary.ca
       Ph: +1-403-220-7424                  Fax: +1-403-289-3331
           Attn: Bill Scott/Russ Taylor, Physics and Astronomy Department,
           University of Calgary, 2500 University Dr. NW, Calgary,
           Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4

Socorro Correlator                                                      UT-7 hours *
       Fax: +1-505-835-7027
       Mailing address for all except tapes:
            NRAO, P.O. Box O, 1003 Lopezville Rd., Socorro, NM 87801 USA
       Preliminary data quality analysis
            Data Analysts         analysts@nrao.edu      Ph: +1-505-835-7238
       Correlator operators       vlbacorr@nrao.edu      Ph: +1-505-735-7252
       Correlator management
            Jon Romney            jromney@nrao.edu       Ph: +1-505-835-7360
       General user support
            Mark Claussen         mclausse@nrao.edu      Ph: +1-505-835-7284
            Jim Ulvestad          julvesta@nrao.edu      Ph: +1-505-835-7298
       User support for EVN observations
            Amy Mioduszewski      amiodusz@nrao.edu      Ph: +1-505-835-7236
       AIPS support/Designated AIP   http://www.cv.nrao.edu/aips/d_aip.html
Socorro Correlator  (cont'd)                                            UT-7 hours *
       Tape librarian
            Brenda Broadwell      vlbatape@nrao.edu      Ph: +1-505-835-7254
       Tape shipping address:
            Associated Universities Inc., National Radio Astronomy Observatory,
            Socorro Correlator, 1003 Lopezville Road, Socorro, NM 87801 USA

JIVE Correlator                                                          UT+1 hour *
       Huib van Langevelde               huib@jive.nfra.nl
       Ph: +31-521-596500                Fax: +31-521-597332
              JIVE, Postbus 2, 7991 PD Dwingeloo, The Netherlands

MIT Near real-time correlator                                           UT-5 hours *
       Toney Minter       tminter@nrao.edu               Ph: +1-304-456-2275

_____________________________________Navigation Teams_______________________________
ASC    									UT+3 hours
        Yurii Ponomarev			 yupon@dpc.asc.rssi.ru          
	Ph: +07-095-333-24-23		 Fax: +7-095-333-2378	
                  	 Astro Space Center
        84/32 Profsoyuznaya st. 117810 GSP-1, Moscow, RUSSIA
JPL                                                                     UT-5 hours *
       Jordan Ellis                      Jordan.Ellis@Jpl.Nasa.Gov
       Ph:  +1-818-354-2788              Fax: +1-818-393-6558
          Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, M/S 301-125J,
          Pasadena, CA 91109, USA




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__________________________________Ground Radio Telescopes___________________________

Arecibo                                                                 UT-5 hours *
     Tapasi Ghosh                         tghosh@naic.edu
     Chris Salter                         csalter@naic.edu
     Ph: +1-787-878-2612                  Fax: +1-787-878-1861
       Arecibo Observatory, Barrio Esperanza,
       Route 625, Arecibo, Puerto Rico PR 00612, U.S.A.

ATCA (Narrabri), Mopra, Parkes                                        UT+10 hours **
     John Reynolds                        jreynold@atnf.csiro.au
     Ph: +61-2-9372-4165                  Fax: +61-2-9372-4310
     ATCA:    Ph: +61-67-90-4033          Fax: +61-67-90-4090
     Mopra:   Ph: +61-68-49-1800          Fax: +61-68-49-1888
     Parkes:  Ph: +61-68-61-1750          Fax: +61-68-61-1753
       ATNF/CSIRO, Cnr Vimiera Rd/Pembroke St, Marsfield, NSW 2122, Australia

Bear Lakes                                                              UT+2 hours *
     Misha Popov                          mpopov@dpc.asc.rssi.ru


Ceduna............. see Hobart                                       UT+9.5 hours **

DSN 70m: Goldstone, Madrid, Tidbinbilla                                 UT-8 hours *
     Valery Altunin                       via@vlbira.jpl.nasa.gov
     Ph: +1-818-354-3358                  Fax: +1-818-354-6290
     Chuck Naudet                         Charles.J.Naudet@jpl.nasa.gov
     Pamela Wolken                        Pamela.R.Wolken@jpl.nasa.gov
     John LuValle                         John.V.Luvalle@jpl.nasa.gov

Effelsberg                                                               UT+1 hour *
     Reinhard Schulze                     schulze@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de
                                          evlbi@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de
     Ph: +49-2257-30115                   Fax: +49-2257-30189
         Max-Planck-Institut f\"ur Radioastronomie,
         Radio-Observatorium Effelsberg, D-53902 Bad M\"unstereifel, Germany

Evpatoria                                                               UT+2 hours *
     Misha Popov                          mpopov@dpc.asc.rssi.ru


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Goldstone.................... see DSN                                   UT-8 hours *
         Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex
         AlliedSignal Technical Services  850 E. Main, Barstow, CA 92311, USA
         DELIVER TO: DSS16 BLDG. G-201. ATTN: GDSCC Operations Supervisor

Green Bank                                                              UT-5 hours *
     140' Telescope operator              140op@nrao.edu
     Ph: +1-304-456-2345                  Fax: +1-304-456-2200
         NRAO, Route 28/92, Green Bank, WV  24944-0002, USA

Hartebeesthoek                                                          UT+1 hour **
     Jonathan Quick                       vlbifriend@bootes.hartrao.ac.za
     Ph: +27-11-6424692                   Fax: +27-11-6422424
         Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory
         P.O. Box 443, Krugersdorp 1740, South Africa

Hobart, Ceduna                                                        UT+10 hours **
     Marco Costa                          marco.costa@utas.edu.au
                                          vlbi@phys.utas.edu.au
     Peter McCulloch                      peter.mcculloch@utas.edu.au
     Hobart:    Ph: +61-3-624-85285       Fax: +61-3-62262410
     Ceduna:    Ph: +61-86-252-217        Fax: +61-86-252-704
         Physics Dept, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 7000 Australia

Jodrell Bank                                                            UT+0 hours *
     Alastair Gunn                        agg@jb.man.ac.uk
                                          vlbi@jb.man.ac.uk
     Ph: +44-1477-571-321                 Fax: +44-1477-571-618
         NRAL Jodrell Bank, Macclesfield, Cheshire SK11 9DL, United Kingdom

Kalyazin                                                                UT+2 hours *
     Slava Slysh                          vslysh@dpc.asc.rssi.ru

Kashima                                                                   UT+9 hours
     For scheduling:   H. Kobayashi       hkobaya@RadioAstron.isas.ac.jp
     For operations:   J. Nakajima        nakaji@crl.go.jp
     Ph: +81-299-84-7145                  Fax: +81-299-84-7140
         Kashima Space Research Center, Communications Research Laboratory,
         893--1, Hirai, Kashima-machi, Kashima-gun, Ibaraki 314, Japan


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Madrid............ see DSN                                               UT+1 hour *
         Madrid Tracking and Data Acquisition Station (NASA-INTA)
         Calle Orense, 4-9th Floor, 28020 Madrid, SPAIN
         M/F: Logistic Supervisor/MDSCC, +34-1-867-7022

Medicina                                                                 UT+1 hour *
     Tiziana Venturi                      tventuri@ira.bo.cnr.it
     Ph: +39-51-639-9385                  Fax: +39-51-696-9431
           Stazione Radioastronomica di Medicina, Via Fiorentina,
           40059 Medicina, Bologna, ITALY
           Attn: Giuseppe Maccaferri, +39-51-6965831

Metsahovi                                                                UT+1 hour *
     Kaj Wiik                             vlbi@hut.fi,  kaj.wiik@hut.fi
     Kirsi Karlamaa                       kirsu@kurp.hut.fi
     Ph: +358-9-264419                    Fax: +358-9-264531
           TKK/Metsaehovi Radio Research Station, Metsaehovintie 114,
           Fin-02540 Kylmala, Finland

Mopra................ see ATCA                                        UT+10 hours **

Nobeyama                                                                  UT+9 hours
       Seiji Kameno                       kameno@nro.nao.ac.jp
       Ph: +81-422-34-3603 (Mitaka)       Fax: +81-422-34-3869 (Mitaka)
       Nobeyama Radio Observatory, Nobeyama, Minami-saku, Minami-maki,
       Nagano 384-13, Japan

Noto                                                                     UT+1 hour *
       Corrado Trigilio                   trigilio@ira.noto.cnr.it
       Ph: +39-931-835622                 Fax: +39-931-573265
          Istituto di Radioastronomia  C.N.R., Contrada Renna Bassa,
          Localita Case di Mezzo, I-96017 Noto (SR), Italy

Onsala                                                                   UT+1 hour *
       John Conway                        jconway@oso.chalmers.se
                                          vlbi@oso.chalmers.se
       Antonis Polatidis                  apolatid@oso.chalmers.se
       Ph: +46-31-772-5550                Fax: +46-31-772-5590
          Onsala Space Observatory,
          Chalmers University of Technology, S-43992 Onsala, Sweden

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Shanghai                                                                UT+8 hours *
       Qian Zhihan                        qzh@center.shao.ac.cn
       Huang Xin-yong                     xhuang@shao.ac.cn
       Ph: +86-21-57651763                Fax: +86-21-64384618
            Mr Xue Zhuhe, Shanghai Observatory, Chinese Academy of Science
            80 Nandan Road, Shanghai 200030, China

Tidbinbilla...........see DSN                                         UT+10 hours **
        Tidbinbilla Deep Space Communication Complex
        Paddy's River Road, Tidbinbilla, via Tharwa, ACT  2620, AUSTRALIA

Torun                                                                    UT+1 hour *
       Kazimierz Borkowski               kb@astro.uni.torun.pl
                                         vlbi@astro.uni.torun.pl
       Roman Feiler                      rf@astro.uni.torun.pl
       Ph: +48-56-511651                 Fax: +48-56-511651
            Torun Radio Astronomy Observatory, Nicolaus Copernicus University,
            PL 87-100, Torun, Gagarina 11, Poland

Urumqi                                                                  UT+8 hours *
       Li Suqin                          uao@public.wl.xj.cn
       Ph: +86-991-3835750               Fax: +86-991-3838628
          Urumqi Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
          40 sub 5 Beijing South Road, Urumqi, Xingjiang, 830011 P.R. of China

Usuda                                                                     UT+9 hours
       Kenta Fujisawa                    kenta@RadioAstron.isas.ac.jp
       Takeshi Miyaji                    miyaji@nro.nao.ac.jp
       Ph: +81-267-81-1230               Fax: +81-267-81-1234
          Usuda Deep Space Center, ISAS, Usuda, Minamisaku, Nagano 384-0306, Japan



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VLA and VLBA Operations                                                 UT-7 hours *
       Experiment Schedules
          Data Analysts                  analysts@nrao.edu
          Ph: +1-505-835-7238            Fax: +1-505-835-7027
       Telescope Operator/Overall Operations
          VLBA Telescope Operator        vlbaops@nrao.edu
          Ph: +1-505-835-7250            Fax: +1-505-835-7027
          NRAO, P.O. Box O, 1003, Lopezville Road, Socorro, NM 87801 USA

Westerbork                                                               UT+1 hour *
       Tony Foley                        foley@nfra.nl
       Ph: +31-521-595230 (Dwingeloo)    Ph: +31-593-592421 (Westerbork)
       Fax: +31-521-597332
       Radiosterrenwacht Westerbork, Schattenberg 1, NL 9433 TA Zwiggelte,
       THE NETHERLANDS


_________________________________________Other______________________________________

CREST (formerly ISTS)                                                   UT-4 hours *
       S2 Support                        s2support@sgl.crestech.ca
       Wayne Cannon                      wayne@sgl.crestech.ca
       Ph: +1-416-665-5470               Fax: +1-416-665-1815
          Center for Research in Earth and Space Technology,
            (formerly the Institute for Space and Terrestrial Science)
          Space Geodynamics Lab., 4850 Keele St., North York,
          Ontario,  Canada M3J 3K1

GSFC -- FS Support                                                      UT-5 hours *
       Ed Himwich                         weh@vega.gsfc.nasa.gov
       Nancy Vandenberg                   nrv@gemini.gsfc.nasa.gov
       PCFS e-mail exploder               pcfs@vega.gsfc.nasa.gov
       Ph: +1-301-286-4876/9019           Fax: +1-301-286-0213
       Code 920.1, Building 22/Room C-291, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt MD 20771, USA



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