MeerKAT

South Africa is shortlisted to host the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), the most powerful radio telescope ever. South Africa is building an SKA technology pathfinder telescope, the Karoo Array Telescope (known as MeerKAT).

MeerKAT/KAT-7

Developing highly skilled scientists and engineers
KAT-7 infrastructure and development
CAD drawings of the MeerKAT antennae design
MeerKAT system engineering update
C-BASS dish installed at MeerKAT support base
RFI-shielded containers

South Africa is building the Karoo Array Telescope (MeerKAT) which is a precursor instrument for the SKA, but will in its own right be amongst the largest and most powerful telescopes in the world.

The MeerKAT team is now working on KAT-7, a seven-dish prototype interferometer array in the Karoo. The construction and commissioning of the full MeerKAT array (consisting of 80 dishes) will follow at the same site.