Africa: Southern Africa and Australasia to Share SKA

25 May 2012

Pretoria — South Africa and Australia are to share the hosting of world's most powerful radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), the SKA Board decided at a meeting in the Netherlands today (25 May).

This is despite the conclusions of an independent site advisory committee, which carried out an objective technical and scientific assessment of sites that had been proposed in each of the two countries, and identified the South African site as being the preferred one (although both sites were found to be suitable).

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