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The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Observatory (SKAO) has announced that the first telescope dish for its SKA-Mid array has been assembled on site, in the Karoo region in the Northern Cape province ...

The SKA project and its South African 64-dish precursor, the MeerKAT radio telescope project (designed, set up and operated in the Karoo by Sarao) are grouped together as one of 18 strategic ...

The biggest part of the SKA telescope is being built 80km outside the town of Carnarvon, which is having a ripple effect on its economy.

It includes recommendations on how the SKA will be built and operated, within the Karoo environment, and on the measures to be taken to reduce its impact on the environment and to increase its ...

The world's largest radio telescopes that will make up the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) are currently being built in South Africa and Australia.

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA), which will contain hundreds of radio antennae spread across two continents, is now under construction in both South Africa's Karoo region and Western Australia's ...

To expand these sites, however, has required various land agreements, with farmers in the Karoo; and with the Wajarri Yamaji, the Aboriginal title holders in the Murchison.

It is one of the grand scientific projects of the 21st Century and will even search for extra-terrestrials.

Calvinia, Northern Cape, Karoo, on the R27 road. Close-up of a Climax wind pump silhouetted against blue sky. Image: Supplied ...