South Africa unveils Trans-Africa radio astronomy project

South Africa is promoting the development of a network of radio telescopes across Africa, SKA South Africa Director Dr Bernie Fanaroff revealed on Tuesday. This is an outgrowth of the cooperation between South Africa and eight other African countries regarding this country’s bid to host the €1,5-billion international Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope, in terms of which a number of SKA outstations would be sited in these countries, in addition to the core and other outstations which would be located in South Africa.

The idea is to link telescopes together forming the African Array. This, in turn, would be connected to radio telescopes and arrays in Europe and elsewhere in the world.

http://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/south-african-astronomers-unveil-trans-africa-radio-astronomy-project-2011-01-18

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