radio telescope

  1. Hanno Labuschagne

    Astronomer reveals how Starlink satellites are "leaking" radio signals

    Astronomer reveals how Starlink satellites are "leaking" radio signals When I was a child in the 1970s, seeing a satellite pass overhead in the night sky was a rare event. Now it is commonplace: sit outside for a few minutes after dark, and you can’t miss them. Thousands of satellites have...
  2. Hanno Labuschagne

    Astronomers using machine learning to mine data from MeerKAT

    Astronomers using machine learning to mine data from MeerKAT New telescopes with unprecedented sensitivity and resolution are being unveiled around the world – and beyond Among them are the Giant Magellan Telescope under construction in Chile, and the James Webb Space Telescope, which is...
  3. Jan

    SKA construction steams ahead - over 500 million euros in contracts

    R8.8 billion construction funding for massive telescope — how South Africa will benefit Infrastructure work at the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope site in South Africa's Karoo is set to begin in 2022, and could see South African builders land substantial contracts. Only six months after...
  4. QuintonB

    IBM wins SKA contract worth €32.9 million

    IBM nets SKA contract worth €32.9 million IBM and ASTRON have announced a 32.9 million Euro, five-year collaboration to research extremely fast, but low-power exascale computer systems, targeted for the SKA.
  5. Derrick

    Radio telescope to probe early universe may be located in SA

    From Chris van Gass, Business Day: An international conference in Cape Town of astronomers involved in the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope — an ambitious project to detect the very faint signals from the early universe — is expected to boost the chances of SA being chosen as the site...
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