The Southern Hemisphere contribution to the VSOP mission

The Space VLBI mission, VSOP, involves the participation of 15 countries with up to 40 radio telescopes spread across the Earth observing in close coordination with the 8 m radio telescope on board the Japanese spacecraft HALCA (Hirabayashi, 1998, and this Proceedings). This paper describes the contributions to the mission's success from Southern Hemisphere radio telescopes, facilities and Institutes.