Dear all, What a year it’s been for the SKA Project. As we reach the end of the year and start looking ahead to the next, it is a good time to stop and look back at the main achievements … Read more

Wednesday 14 December 2016, SKA global Headquarters, UK – The SKA has achieved* a key milestone in its engineering process with the positive conclusion of the System Preliminary Design Review (PDR). This review paves the way for the continuation of the … Read more

Berlin, Germany, Friday 9 December 2016 – At a ceremony last night in Berlin, the SKA was awarded the 2016 European Excellence Award in Public Relations in the category Corporate Film & Video for its new trailer. The awards honour outstanding … Read more

SKA Headquarters, UK, Thursday 1 December – This year, in the run up to Christmas, the SKA Office is publishing an Advent Calendar featuring some of the main highlights of the past year for the project. We encourage you to … Read more

The Directors of SKA Organisation held a meeting at SKA Headquarters in Jodrell Bank, United Kingdom on the 24th and 25th of November 2016 for the 22nd meeting of the SKA Board of Directors. Notes from the Chair of the … Read more

Perth, Australia, Wednesday 11 November – His Majesty King Willem-Alexander and Her Majesty Queen Máxima were on a State visit to Australia, between the 31st of October to the 4th of November. The State visit to Australia was devoted to … Read more

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project’s 2016 science conference, “Science for the SKA Generation”, is currently taking place in Goa, India. Some 200 astronomers from around the globe have travelled to attend the week-long conference, which this year is focusing on … Read more

Goa, India, Monday 7 November – The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project’s 2016 science conference, “Science for the SKA Generation”, has kicked off in Goa, India. Some 200 astronomers from around the globe have travelled to attend the week-long conference, which this … Read more

Perth, Western Australia, Thursday 27 October – Published today in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, the GaLactic and Extragalactic All-sky MWA, or ‘GLEAM’ survey, has produced a catalogue of 300,000 galaxies observed by the Murchison Widefield Array … Read more

SKA Organisation HQ, Friday 21 October – ESA’s Advanced Telescope for High ENergy Astrophysics (Athena) and the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be key ingredients of the battery of next generation astronomical observatories in the late 2020s. These facilities will … Read more