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The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is the international radio telescope project for the 21st century. The SKA will revolutionize astronomy and make unique contributions to basic physics. To build the SKA will require vigourous technological developments in computing, communications and radio frequency devices.
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Over fifty times more powerful than the world’s largest existing telescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be one of the largest and most ambitious international science projects ever devised. It will help to answer fundamental questions about the evolution of the universe.
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Leading astronomers from Europe, North America, Asia and Australia have signed an agreement jointly to plan a huge new radiotelescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), which will come into operation in the middle of the next decade. The signing ceremony took place during the triennial General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union hosted by the University of Manchester in August 2000. The SKA will be a uniquely sensitive instrument. Its collecting area will be almost 100 times larger than today's biggest radio imaging telescope and 200 times larger than the pioneering Lovell Telescope, which is in day-to-day operation at the Manchester University's Jodrell Bank Observatory.
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Together with Australia, China and Argentina, South Africa is on the shortlist to host the world's largest radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array, or (SKA). "Competition in this bid is tough, as the winning country will attract a billion euro investment and one of the most ambitious science projects ever" says Dr Bernie Fanaroff, South Africa's SKA Project Manager. "The winner in the SKA bid will only be known by 2008, but in the mean time we are planning to build the Karoo Array Telescope, or KAT, in the same region where we hope to site the core of the SKA."
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The Molonglo telescope is ... being used to prototype and test new technologies relevant to the international next-generation radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). This project, which is being carried out in collaboration with CSIRO, has recently been awarded substantial funding through the Australian Government's Major National Research Facilities (MNRF) program.
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South Africa is submitting its bid to host the world's biggest radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), at the end of May. The South African SKA has announced that the South African bid identifies three sites in the Northern Cape as ideal locations for SKA radio telescope, each with a diameter of 150 km. The sites are in the Kalahari (north of Upington); in the Karoo (north of Carnarvon); and in Namaqualand (east of Springbok).
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