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Media coverage
The following is a selection of links to online information published by the media in 2010.
One big step forward for SA, one GIANT leap closer to SKA
The Star, 31 August 2010
South Africa's proud reputation
for scientific excellence
has been further enhanced by
the world astronomical community's
decision to base its new, wellfunded
10-year programme to foster
and promote astronomy in the
developing world in this country.
Homing in on a giant telescope
Cape Argus, 12 August 2010
The seven sparkling
white dish antennas stand
incongruously in the dry
brown landscape of the
Great Karoo – the first of
an array of high-tech
conduits reaching deep into the
infinite expanses of the Universe.
Reuse-'oog' tuur die ruimte in
Volksblad, 9 August 2010
As Suid-Afrika se bod slaag om die Square Kilometre Array (SKA), 'n reusagtige radioteleskoopkompleks, by Carnarvon in the Noord-Kaap te huisves, sal dit groot voordele vir die streek en vir Suid-Afrika meebring.
Back to the Bang!
Independent Group, August 2010
SKA is an international project that
should start operating within the next
decade and be fully operational by about
2025 – and it could be located at Carnarvon
in the Northern Cape, with outlying
stations in several other African countries.
SA takes lead in telescope bid
Diamond Fields Advertiser, 31 March 2010
Yesterday the Minister for Science and Technology,
Naledi Pandor, and Northern Cape Premier,
Hazel Jenkins, joined SKA staff to brief the media
and dignitaries on the latest development in the
MeerKat project – the completion of the first seven
telescopes, which will serve as testers for the cutting-
edge technology needed to build SKA.
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