|
Media releases
MeerKAT project achieves major milestones
10 May 2010 - The Karoo Array Telescope (MeerKAT) project, a world-class radio telescope being built by the Department of Science and Technology and the National Research Foundation in the Karoo semi-desert in South Africa near the towns of Carnarvon and Williston, achieved a major milestone in April 2010 when the first four telescopes in the MeerKAT Precursor Array (MPA - also known as KAT-7) were linked together as an integrated system to produce the MeerKAT's first interferometric image of an astronomical object.
MeerKAT Precursor KAT 7 sees Fringes
10 December 2009 - The South African MeerKAT Project reached a major milestone on 3 December 2009 when interference fringes were seen between two of the dishes which have now been constructed on the MeerKAT site. This milestone was reached ahead of schedule - it was originally scheduled for 18 December 2009.
Building vital capacity for the world's biggest radio telescope (SKA)
2 December 2009 - While the MeerKAT telescope is being constructed in the Northern Cape, the South African SKA Youth into Science and Engineering Programme is feeding a steady stream of high-level expertise into the continent's SET system that will help Africa push the boundaries of radio astronomy and related sciences and technologies.
Five new South African SKA Research Chairs
27 October 2009 - South Africa will soon have five new research chairs at South African universities dedicated to the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project.
SKA South Africa awards major power and fibre optic tender to Optic 1
5 August 2009 - Optic 1, a Brits-based electrical supplier and leading South African company in the field of supplying and securing power lines, will construct a specialised 33 kV overhead power line and fibre optic cable system for South Africa's new mega radio telescope. This R46 million project must be completed by the end of 2009.
Africa's largest mobile crane handed over to SKA South Africa
20 April 2009 - Africa's largest mobile crane was officially handed over to the SKA South Africa project last week at Klerefontein, 10km from Carnarvon.
World economic recession won't jeopardise the Square Kilometre Array
26 February 2009 - Now is the time to invest in scientific thinkers to solve our planet's problems, says SKA stakeholders.
Top cosmologist awes Cape audiences
25 February 2009 - Professor Malcolm Longair, an eminent cosmologist from Cambridge University in the UK, gave a talk at the University of Cape Town entitled "Hot News from the Big Bang: Why Inflation is a Good Thing" to about 300 students, staff and public.
A radio perspective on SA's 2009 solar eclipse
27 January 2009 - The MeerKAT team in Cape Town joined the countrywide celebrations of a partial solar eclipse and the official launch of the International Year of Astronomy 2009 in South Africa, on Monday 26 January 2009.
|
