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The '''Very Small Array''' ('''VSA''') was a 14-element [[interferometer|interferometric]] radio telescope operating between 26 and 36&nbsp;GHz that is used to study the [[cosmic microwave background radiation]]. It was a collaboration between the [[University of Cambridge]], [[University of Manchester]] and the [[Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias]] ([[Tenerife]]), and was located at the [[Observatorio del Teide]] on [[Tenerife]]. The array was built at the [[Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory]] by the [[Cavendish Astrophysics Group]] and [[Jodrell Bank Observatory]], and was funded by [[PPARC]] (now [[Science and Technology Facilities Council|STFC]]). The design was strongly based on the [[Cosmic Anisotropy Telescope]].<ref name="cam" /><ref name="jbo" />

The telescope was comparable in terms of capabilities to several other CMB experiments, including the balloon-based [[BOOMERanG]] and [[Millimeter Anisotropy eXperiment IMaging Array|MAXIMA]], and the ground-based [[Degree Angular Scale Interferometer|DASI]] and [[Cosmic Background Imager|CBI]].<ref name="watson" />