Its functions are to promote and coordinate the research and technical development of radio astronomy in Argentina and to collaborate in the teaching and dissemination of astrophysics and related disciplines.

Research topics include high-energy astrophysics and compact objects, gravitation and numerical relativity, interstellar medium, planetary science, pulsar astronomy, massive stars, and machine learning with application to signal processing.

In order to accomplish this task, he visited the most important countries in South America, including Argentina, with the intention of building a regional radio observatory.

In 1963, the first 30-meter antenna began to be built at the Pereyra Iraola Park (Partido de Berazategui), 20 km from the provincial capital city of La Plata, along with the necessary civil works to house the laboratories, workshops, control rooms and offices.

The Radio Interferometry Group (FRINGE[3]) started in 2016 as an association of astronomers whose link involves carrying out interferometric studies in centimeter, millimeter, and submillimeter wavelengths.

The group currently embraces a wide variety of research topics, from particle acceleration and cosmic rays to theoretical gravitation and blazar astrophysics.

The inherent dynamics of the transfer activities has allowed, over the course of a few years, to bring together numerous young professionals and advanced students from several branches of Engineering.