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SA’s MeerKAT and the international SKA telescopes moving from concept to reality
December 14, 2012 Editor 0
Since the announcement, in May, of the selection of the sites – one in South Africa and the other in Australia – to host the €1.5-billion international Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project (with the major part of the instrument to be in South Africa, in the Karoo region), developments have begun to accelerate.
“We now have a real project,” enthuses SKA South Africa (SKA SA) associate director for science and engineering Professor Justin Jonas. “A real project in which we can now see some real progress towards, certainly, the establishment of SKA Phase I.”
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