The Yebes Observatory is located in the municipality of Yebes, province of Guadalajara, just 80 km from Madrid, at an altitude of 930 m.
It is managed by the Astronomical Center of Yebes, a unit of the National Geographic Institute dedicated to the development and construction of instrumentation in the field of radioastronomy, as well as to the realization of astronomical observations of both astronomical and geodesic or geophysical interest.
The 40m radio telescope is one of the most important nodes of the European Very Long Base Interferometry Network, one of the largest scientific facilities in the world, and is a station of the International VLBI Service for Geodesy and Astrometry.
The centre is home to four main facilities:
the large radio telescope of 40 m in diameter,
the 13.2 m radio telescope of the RAEGE network, together with the headquarters of the network,
an anechoic chamber capable of working at very high frequencies,
A pavilion of relative (superconducting) and absolute gravimetry.
It also has laboratories and workshops for the design, development and construction of advanced radio astronomy equipment.
