An international panel of experts has declared that the MeerKAT radio telescope being built by the SA team preparing SA’s bid for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) has passed its “preliminary design review” with “distinction”. MeerKAT is a 64-dish radio telescope
The universe still holds many mysteries. The SA engineers and scientists working at bringing the world’s largest radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), to SA are hoping
SA’s bid to host the world’s most powerful radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), could bring the country as much as €200m (R1,9bn) a year. This according to an inter-ministerial committee, which is leading SA’s bid for the project.
Astronomers from around the world were queuing up to use SA’s MeerKAT radio telescope, the project team said on Thursday. Even though MeerKAT was still five years from being operational, more than 43 000 hours of observing time had already been allocated
