The first seven dishes, KAT-7, are complete and have already produced its first pictures. South Africa has already demonstrated its excellent science and engineering skills by designing and building the MeerKAT telescope – as a pathfinder to the SKA. Eleven countries are currently members of the SKA Organisation – Australia, Canada, China, Germany, India (associate member), Italy, New Zealand, South Africa, Sweden, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
The SKA Organisation, with its headquarters at Jodrell Bank Observatory, near Manchester, UK, was established in December 2011 as a not-for-profit company in order to formalise relationships between the international partners and to centralise the leadership of the project. With a range of other large telescopes in the optical and infrared being built and launched into space over the coming decades, the SKA will perfectly augment, complement and lead the way in scientific discovery. It will have an unprecedented scope in observations, exceeding the image resolution quality of the Hubble Space Telescope by a factor of 50 times, whilst also having the ability to image huge areas of sky in parallel. The SKA telescope will be co-located in Africa and in Australia. The scale of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) represents a huge leap forward in both engineering and research & development towards building and delivering a radio telescope, and will deliver a correspondingly transformational increase in science capability when operational.ĭeploying thousands of radio telescopes, in three unique configurations, it will enable astronomers to monitor the sky in unprecedented detail and survey the entire sky thousands of times faster than any system currently in existence. Amateur Astronomy Associations of Africa Database.Other Scholarship and Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunities.SARAO Scholarships and Postdoctoral Fellowships.MeerKAT and KAT 7 Environmental Authorisations.Integrated Environmental Management Plan (IEMP) – Revision.Integrated Environmental Management Plan (IEMP).Hartebeesthoek Site in Johannesburg, South Africa.
SARAO – South African Radio Astronomy Observatory.
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