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July 16, 2018

MeerKAT radio telescope inaugurated in South Africa

Deputy President of the Republic of South Africa, Mr David Mabuza, today officially inaugurated the MeerKAT radio telescope. After a decade in design and construction, this […]
February 7, 2018

SKA Prototype Dish Assembled For The First Time

The first fully assembled SKA dish was unveiled today at a ceremony in Shijiazhuang, China, by the Vice Minister of the Chinese Ministry of Science and […]
January 12, 2018

Designing the SKA Telescopes – Across 18 time zones: a global effort to deliver a dish prototype

21 December 2017, SKA Global Headquarters, Jodrell Bank, UK – In the second part of our feature story on designing the SKA telescopes, we look back […]
August 3, 2017

The sound of deep space – MeerKAT on BBC

[x_video_player type=”16:9″ m4v=”http://aw.mobileeapps.com//wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Telescopes-to-reach-nine-billion-light-years-away-BBC-News.m4v” ogv=”http://aw.mobileeapps.com//wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Telescopes-to-reach-nine-billion-light-years-away-BBC-News.ogv” poster=”http://aw.mobileeapps.com//wp-content/uploads/2017/08/BBC-MeerKAT.jpg” autoplay=”true”] In the emptiest corner of South Africa, telescopes are being built to search up to 9 billion light years away. […]
June 16, 2016

Sweden’s biggest contribution yet to the world’s largest radio telescope

Sweden’s biggest contribution yet to the world’s biggest radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), has passed a major milestone. An advanced – and beautiful – […]