Welcome to SKA canada
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project is an international collaboration to build the world’s largest radio telescope. The SKA aims to conduct groundbreaking science that will transform our understanding of the Universe and of the laws of fundamental physics. The SKA will monitor the sky in unprecedented detail and map it hundreds of times faster than any current facility.
The SKA will not be a single telescope but a collection of telescopes called an array, working together over long distances – tens to hundreds of kilometres and eventually thousands of kilometres. The SKA’s construction has been divided into two phases: Phase 1 in Australia for SKA1-Low and South Africa for SKA1-Mid; and Phase 2 for SKA2 expanding further in Australia and South Africa as well as into other African countries. Scientific operations are scheduled to begin in the early 2020s.
Supported by 20 countries around the world, the SKA is being designed by more than 500 of the world’s finest scientists and engineers drawn from more than 100 companies and research institutions. Canada has been involved in the SKA project since its earliest stages, and continues to play a leading role in the advanced design, technology and research activities needed to create this exciting facility.
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