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Archive for March 4th, 2010
First signal received by future telescope
Author: John
Image credit – Dave DeBoer, CSIRO
An historic milestone was reached recently in Australia’s bid to host the Square Kilometre Array telescope – a future international radio telescope that will be the world’s largest and most sensitive.
The first antenna to be assembled as part of the Australia Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope, an important precursor to the Square Kilometre Array, has received its first radio signals.
“ASKAP’s progress to date shows that our goals, although ambitious, are achievable,” said CSIRO’s SKA Director, Professor Brian Boyle.
”The journey to a thousand SKA dishes begins with a single photon.”
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