Shanghai, 7 December 2018 – SKA Regional Centres (SRCs) were high on the agenda when SKA Organisation Director-General Prof. Philip Diamond travelled to China this week to meet the deputy mayor of Shanghai’s Municipal Government, Qing Wu. After receiving an overview … Read more

SKA Global Headquarters, 26 November 2018 – The Square Kilometre Array Organisation (SKAO) is today releasing its first ever Science Data Challenge, giving astronomers a taste of the highly detailed images the SKA will produce. Developed by the SKAO’s Project … Read more

SKA Global Headquarters, 21 November 2018 – Canada’s largest radio telescope, the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME), has been officially granted Square Kilometre Array (SKA) pathfinder status. SKA pathfinders and precursors are facilities all over the world involved in … Read more

SKA Global Headquarters, 20 November 2018 – The SKA has joined 30 fellow research infrastructures to collaborate on a new science data initiative, which forms part of efforts to create a European cloud for scientific research. Launched today, ESCAPE (The … Read more

SKA Global Headquarters, 8 November 2018 – A new paper published yesterday highlights the potential of the SKA to tackle key questions of cosmology, by presenting a detailed overview of the various observation campaigns that can be conducted with the … Read more

Perth, Western Australia, 11 October 2018 – Researchers using the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope have nearly doubled the known number of ‘fast radio bursts’ – powerful flashes of radio waves from deep space. The team’s discoveries include … Read more

Bremen, Germany – October 2, 2018 – Breakthrough Listen, the global initiative to seek signs of intelligent life in the universe – announced today at the International Astronautical Congress the commencement of a major new programme with the MeerKAT telescope in partnership with the South African … Read more

The Netherlands, 13 September 2018 – A major upgrade to the iconic Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WRST) has been officially opened at a ceremony in the Netherlands. The Apertif high-speed, wide-field radio camera – also known as a Phased Array … Read more

SKA Global Headquarters, 6 August 2018 – After four and a half years, the international Telescope Manager (TM) consortium has formally concluded its work on the architectural design of a fundamental part of the software for the Square Kilometre Array: … Read more

SKA Global Headquarters, 26 July 2018 – A consortium of French research institutions and industry has become the 12th member of the SKA Organisation following approval of its accession by the SKA Board of Directors. The decision to accept the … Read more