SKA Global Headquarters, 10 June 2019 – The SKA Organisation has followed closely the recent developments towards creating constellations of satellites that aim to offer wireless broadband access in remote areas. Innovation and societal impact are at the heart of … Read more

SKA Global Headquarters, Thursday 16 May 2019 – The UK Science Minister Chris Skidmore MP visited the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Global Headquarters Tuesday 14 May.  Following a speech at the Global Innovation Summit in Manchester, the UK’s Minister of … Read more

SKA Global Headquarters, 9 May 2019 – The SKA’s Science Data Processor (SDP) consortium has concluded its engineering design work, marking the end of five years’ work to design one of two supercomputers that will process the enormous amounts of data … Read more

SKA Global Headquarters, 8 May 2019 – The prestigious German research organisation the Max Planck Society has become the 13th member of the SKA Organisation, following a unanimous vote by the SKA Board of Directors at its recent meeting at … Read more

Monday 6 May 2019, SKA Global Headquarters, UK – A new Director has been appointed to lead the Square Kilometre Array’s operations as the project wraps up design activities and prepares to enter its construction phase. Following the retirement of … Read more

SKA Global Headquarters, Jodrell Bank, UK, 15 April 2019 – The first ever image of a black hole released by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration was made possible thanks to VLBI, a technique the SKA will take full advantage of. … Read more

Alderley Park, Cheshire, UK, Monday 8th of April 2019 – Close to 300 astronomers from 20 countries have come together in Cheshire, UK for the international SKA science conference New Science enabled by New Techniques in the SKA era, looking at … Read more

SKA Organisation Headquarters, 18 March 2019 – SKA Organisation Project Scientist Dr. Evan Keane has been awarded the European Astronomical Society’s (EAS) 2019 MERAC Prize for Observational Astrophysics, in recognition of his work on radio transients. The prize, which is … Read more

Rome, Italy, Tuesday 12th of March 2019 – Countries involved in the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Project have come together in Rome for the signature of the international treaty establishing the intergovernmental organisation that will oversee the delivery of the … Read more

SKA Global Headquarters, 11 March 2019: The SKA has many talented women working across the project, in science, engineering, computing, project management and many other roles, based at SKA Global Headquarters in the UK and in our partner organisations around … Read more