11 April 2013, SKA Headquarters, Manchester, UK – Message from Phil Diamond, Director General of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA): “I am pleased to announce that, after an exhaustive international search, Dr Robert Braun has been appointed as the SKA Science Director. … Read more

8 April 2013, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan – Information on East Asian Science Workshop about the SKA to be held in Nagoya, Japan, on 5-7 June 2013.       Date: 5-7 June 2013 Place: Sakata-Hirata Hall (Science South Building), Nagoya University, … Read more

5 April 2013, Johannesburg, South Africa –  SKA South Africa today announced that South African industry and institutions with appropriate existing expertise may be eligible for financial assistance on a shared cost, shared risk basis towards participation in the Square Kilometre … Read more

1 April 2013, SKA Headquarters, Manchester, UK – The SKA Organisation is pleased to announce the 2013 SKA Engineering meeting to be held 7-11 October 2013 in Manchester, UK. The SKA has recently released the Request for Proposals inviting organisations … Read more

19 March 2013, Canberra, Australia – Australian science and industry organisations are being invited to bid for design and engineering work on the world’s largest telescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), the Australian Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Science and Research, Chris … Read more

19 March 2013, Dwingeloo, the Netherlands – A team of astronomers led by ASTRON astronomer Dr. George Heald has discovered a previously unknown gigantic radio galaxy, using initial images from a new, ongoing all-sky radio survey. The galaxy was found using … Read more

13 March 2013, Dwingeloo, the Netherlands – On Tuesday 19 and Wednesday 20 March, one hundred astronomers from all over the world will travel to the town of Dalfsen in the Netherlands for a 2-day workshop about the International LOFAR Telescope … Read more

11 March 2013, Pretoria, South Africa – South African scientists to develop rugged microservers to handle the harsh desert conditions, explore new computer architectures and develop advanced algorithms for radio astronomy imaging   Square Kilometer Array (SKA) South Africa, a business … Read more

Some days ago, Phil Diamond, Director General of the SKA Organisation, visited the Nançay Observatory, a laboratory of both the Observatoire de Paris and the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). Claude Catala, President of the Observatoire de Paris, … Read more

4 March 2013, Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory, Western Australia – The first Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) Call for Proposals is now open, from March 1 to May 1, 2013. The proposal template is available from http://mwatelescope.org and should be read in conjunction with the MWA Announcement of Opportunity … Read more