Square Kilometer Array Observatory launched in South Africa will take a decade to complete
The radio telescope is going to be composed of 197 dishes in total. All of them will be 15 metres in diameter.
Feb 10, 2021 10:34:37 IST
The South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) announced that the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) project was successfully launched on Monday. This was finalised after a meeting of SKAO council members held last week approved the establishment of the world’s largest radio telescope. According to
NASA, the Square Kilometre Array will be built in South Africa and Western Australia and the construction and working will take around 10 years. The project aims to measure neutral hydrogen over cosmic time so that the signals from pulsars in the Milky Way can be timed accurately. This will in turn help detect millions of galaxies out to high redshifts.