{"id":71430,"date":"2013-02-27T23:55:52","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T21:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=71430"},"modified":"2013-03-01T10:07:35","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T08:07:35","slug":"r1-9-billion-for-ska-telescopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/71430-r1-9-billion-for-ska-telescopes.html","title":{"rendered":"R1.9-billion for SKA telescopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Square Kilometre Array (<a title=\"SKA\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/313503-The-Square-Kilometre-Array-(SKA)\">SKA<\/a>) and <a title=\"MeerKAT\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/360504-MeerKAT\">MeerKAT<\/a> radio telescope projects have been allocated R1.9 billion over the next three years, according to the 2013 Budget tabled by Finance Minister <a title=\"Pravin Gordhan\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/314269-Pravin-Gordhan\">Pravin Gordhan<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>A large portion of the international SKA project &#8212; construction of which is expected to begin in 2016\/17 &#8212; was awarded to South Africa and its eight African partner countries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the period leading up to the start of construction, South Africa will build the 64-dish antennae radio telescope, MeerKAT.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The first MeerKAT antenna is scheduled for completion in the coming financial year (2013\/14), while the full telescope and associated infrastructure is set for completion in 2016\/17.<\/p>\n<p>According to the budget document: &#8220;R1.9 billion has been allocated over the medium term [2013\/14 to 2015\/16] towards the SKA project, which includes MeerKAT.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More SKA news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to SKA antenna contract awarded to SA firm\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/insight\/70154-ska-antenna-contract-nabbed-by-sa-firm.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">SKA antenna contract awarded to SA firm<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Biggest tech announcements in 2012\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/66671-biggest-tech-announcements-in-2012.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Biggest tech announcements in 2012<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to SA eyes funding for SKA telescope\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/61738-sa-eyes-funding-for-ska-telescope.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">SA eyes funding for SKA telescope<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Digital TV commercial switch-on date set\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/61334-digital-tv-commercial-switch-on-date-set.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Digital TV commercial switch-on date set<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Square Kilometre Array and MeerKAT radio telescope projects have been allocated R1.9 billion over the next three years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":70156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[2154,1239,1243],"class_list":["post-71430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-meerkat","tag-ska","tag-square-kilometre-array"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71432,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71430\/revisions\/71432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}