Location

Site selection criteria more information

Australia location - white paper
Southern Africa location - white paper

Design

SKA must make a revolutionary break with current radio telescopes... more

The SKA Science requirements list the goals for the basic system parameters.

Ongoing technology development work includes:

- Small dishes
Small dishes with solid surfaces - white papers 2003 2002
Small dishes with mesh surfaces - white papers 2002 2002

Small dishes with focal plane arrays to provide a large field of view


- Aperture arrays
Aperture array, a planar array with no moving parts, which is steered electronically
- white papers 2003 2002

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