Category: Square Kilometre Array

  • All systems so for SKA

    All systems so for SKA

    African ministers of science and technology will return home this week with a plan to ready their countries for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) and a network of radio telescopes on the continent. The giant telescope, which will comprise thousands of antennae in Australia and Africa with the core in…

  • Square Kilometre Array confident of attracting new members

    Square Kilometre Array confident of attracting new members

    Although Germany has now withdrawn officially from the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Organisation, the international body tasked with the pre-construction phase of the world’s largest radio telescope, the organisation was “absolutely” confident that new members would join. The telescope will compromise thousands of radio antennae in Africa and Australia, with its core…

  • How to calculate the returns on star-gazing

    How to calculate the returns on star-gazing

    Analysis Countries do not buy into massive scientific projects just for the prestige or to placate their scientists. Even projects such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), which will be the largest scientific instrument on Earth, have to offer member countries something other than collaboration and advancement. This is why…