Mar 28, 2014
The first of 64 antennae that will make up the MeerKAT radio telescope, the country’s precursor to the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), was launched at the SKA South Africa site outside Carnarvon in the Northern Cape yesterday. The MeerKAT Karoo Array Processor...
Nov 20, 2013
The communities around the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) are set to enter the information age with a R2,5-million boost that will equip schools and a community centre with IT hardware, software and services. Intel South Africa has launched several community projects in...
Jul 8, 2013
South Africa’s winning bid to host the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) was announced to much fanfare, providing a platform to showcase local talent and ability that arguably hasn’t been seen since Dr Chris Barnard performed the first heart transplant in the 1960s. And it...
Mar 11, 2013
Square Kilometre Array (SKA) South Africa, a business unit of the country’s National Research Foundation, is joining the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy Astron and IBM in a four-year collaboration to research extremely fast, but low-power exascale computer...
