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Square Kilometre Array,
international radio telescope for the 21st century
A radio telescope with an effective collecting area more than 30 times greater than the largest telescope ever built will reveal the dawn of galaxy formation, as well as many other new discoveries in all fields of astronomy.

SKA Program Development Office
	Australia and Southern Africa short-listed for SKA location 28.09.06 Proposals for siting the SKA were received from the four candidates sites - Argentina/Brazil, Australia, China and Southern Africa - on 31 December 2005. Following a period of evaluation of the proposals and having taken account of the advice of an independent panel called the International SKA Site Advisory Committee, the ISSC decided that the short-list of acceptable sites for the SKA will comprise Australia and Southern Africa. Additional studies of the characteristics of the short-listed sites will be carried out in 2007 and 2008. A final decision of the location of the SKA is expected thereafter.
	SKA on the ESFRI Roadmap 19.10.06 The SKA project has been included on the Future Infrastructures Roadmap of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI-press release). This is an important recognition of the SKA project and a crucial step towards its realisation.
SKA Partners
South Africa
	New connectivity brings real-time global radio astronomy to SA 23.05.08 South Africa ramps up SKA preparatory work as ‘friendly’ competition with Australia intensifies 09.05.08 Sleepy Carnarvon to host supercomputer? 24.04.08 Telescope will benefit SA 23.04.08 SA's telescope bid on track 22.04.08 MeerKAT takes shape 22.04.08 SA steps up SKA bid 21.04.08 SKA race hots up 17.04.08 A new brochure with all the latest information is now available 02.04.08 SKA South Africa poster 02.04.08 South Africa Radio Astronomy Reserve poster 02.04.08
	Newsletters + SKA South Africa: Newsletter
Australia
	Australian Minister cites SKA as a "very special international project" 19.03.08 Multi-million dollar science boost to continue building WA 29.02.08 Australia in the running for ambitious astronomy project Kilometre Array project 21.09.07 State and Australian Governments working together to secure Square Kilometre Array project 21.09.07 Australian Government funding for Australian SKA Pathfinder 15.06.07
	Newsletters + Australian SKA Coordination Committee(ASCC): Newsletter
USA
	Newsletters + Technology Development Project (TDP): Newsletter - April 2008

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> 23.03.06: Presentation
Science with the SKA, B.J.Boyle
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> 12.03.06: Memo
Memo 73: Spectrum Protection Criteria for the Square Kilometre Array, SKA Task Force on Regulatory Issues
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> 09.03.06 Memo
Memo 72 : Surveys with the xNTD and CLAR, S. Johnston & A.Gray
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> 08.03.06 Memo
Memo 71 : Focal-Plane Array Architectures: Horn Clusters vs. Phased-Array Techniques, B.Veidt
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> 07.03.06 Presentation
Radio Frequency Interference and Detection of Fast Radio Transients, R.Bhat, J. Cordes
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