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Global hub for SKA officially inaugurated
May 19, 2013 Editor 0
The SKA Organisation officially opened its new international head office on Tuesday. It is located at the University of Manchester’s Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics in Cheshire, England. This is one of the world’s leading radio astronomy observatories and home to the famous 76-m-diameter Lovell radio telescope, first commissioned in 1957.
The new building is a state-of-the-art design, which cost £3.34-million and was funded by the University of Manchester. It was opened by UK Universities and Science Minister David Willetts.
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