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France became the fourteenth member of the Square Kilometre Array Observatory in June 2026, doubling the organisation's membership since its establishment in 2021. The country has established the Extreme Computing Lab for Astronomical Telescopes to handle the significant data-processing challenges posed by the telescope arrays and was awarded its first construction contract last year to computing specialist Bull for producing science data processing hardware, with first installations scheduled for Australia later this year.
SKA-Mid achieves first fringes milestone as early operations approachTwo dishes of the SKA-Mid instrument in South Africa's Karoo successfully worked together as an interferometer for the first time in January 2026, achieving "first fringes" by observing a radio galaxy 2.6-billion light-years away. Seven SKA-Mid dishes have been assembled to date, with 12 more being delivered from manufacturer CETC54 in China, and the entire array is expected to start early operations by July 2028.
MeerKAT detects record-breaking signal from early universeAstronomers using South Africa's MeerKAT radio telescope discovered the most distant hydroxyl megamaser ever detected, located in a merging galaxy more than eight-billion light-years away, in just five hours of observing time. The discovery demonstrates MeerKAT's sensitivity and provides a preview of what the SKA Observatory might achieve when fully operational.
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The University of Cape Town (UCT) has highlighted the tenth anniversary of the country’s Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy (IDIA). This is a joint endeavour between UCT, the...
France has established the Extreme Computing Lab for Astronomical Telescopes to handle the significant computing challenges that will encountered by the huge data streams the SKA Observatory will...
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Observatory (SKAO) has announced that France has become the international organisation’s fourteenth member. French President Emmanuel Macron signed the documents of...
The University of Pretoria (UP) has awarded South African radio astronomer Professor Justin Jonas an honorary doctorate, in honour of his contributions to radio astronomy and associated engineering...
Accelerating infrastructure investment emerged as a central theme of the 2026 Budget, which Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana characterised as representing a “turning point” for both debt...
This month saw the achievement of another milestone for the international Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope programme, which is being developed by the UK-based SKA Observatory (SKAO) and...
This month saw the achievement of another milestone for the international Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope programme, which is being developed by the UK-based SKA Observatory (SKAO) and...
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Observatory (SKAO) has announced the successful conclusion of a key test of its South Africa-based SKA-Mid instrument. The SKA-Mid (Mid being short for mid radio...
The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) has been awarded a prestigious Science Diplomacy Award at the closing ceremony of the 2025 Science Forum South Africa (SFSA), held from 24–28 November at...
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has outlined several initiatives being undertaken to finally begin shifting the composition of government spending from consumption to capital investment,...
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