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SKA Boost For Education In The Karoo

The Department of Science and Technology and SKA South Africa unveiled yesterday two community initiatives that will provide exciting new ICT solutions and learning resources to this remote Karoo region.

National Awards Recognise Engineering Excellence Of The ASKAP PAF

CSIRO’s innovative new phased array feed (PAF) receiver system has taken home an Australian Engineering Excellence Award at a ceremony in Canberra last night.

Hundreds of world’s experts engaged in the final race for designing the largest radio telescope on earth

4 November 2013, SKA Headquarters, Jodrell Bank Observatory, UK - The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Project enters a new era and takes a major step towards the start of the construction of the world’s largest radio telescope, after the announcement today of the teams who will be responsible for its final design.

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The SKA will be so sensitive that it will be able to detect an airport radar on a planet tens of light years away.
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The SKA central computer will have the processing power of about one hundred million PCs.
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The dishes of the SKA will produce 10 times the global internet traffic.
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The data collected by the SKA in a single day would take nearly two million years to playback on an ipod.
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The SKA will use enough optical fibre to wrap twice around the Earth!
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The aperture arrays in the SKA could produce more than 100 times the global internet traffic.
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