Abstract
The ROT-54/2.6 radio-optical telescope was built in the Aragats Scientific Center by the institution headed by Professor Paris Herouni in 1980-1987 and still has the world's largest double-reflector spherical antenna. After working for more than three decades, it was mothballed in 2012, since there was a physical impact on various structures of the radio-optical telescope due to natural and artificial phenomena. In connection with the fact that the ROT-54/2.6 radio-optical telescope has remained in the mentioned state for a long time, some antenna parameters may have changed compared to the initial parameters. In particular, in 2015, one of the support brackets of the East-West axis of the antenna structure failed and its axis was welded by the decision of the autorities of the National Institute of Metrology without carrying out research and repairs at that time, just to keep the axis stationary. For this reason, at present, the small reflector of the telescope can move only due to rotating around one axis. Therefore, in order to reactivate and reboot the radio optical telescope, it is necessary to know with high accuracy the shift of the physical, ge-ometric and radio engineering parameters of the antenna, and thus estimate the amount of work on the reboot.
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