The Square Kilometre Array will be the largest radio telescope ever built and will produce science that changes our understanding of the universe. In Africa the SKA will be built in South Africa and eight other African Countries. The South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO), a facility of the National Research Foundation, is responsible for managing all radio astronomy initiatives and facilities in South Africa, including the MeerKAT Radio Telescope in the Karoo, the Geodesy and VLBI activities at the Hartebeesthoek site.
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25 - 29 November 2024
SARAO 19th Postgraduate and Postdoctoral Research Conference
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TELESCOPES, INSTRUMENTS, PROGRAMMES AND PROJECTS
Precision Array for Probing the Epoch of Re-ionisation project (PAPER)
The primary goal of PAPER is to detect emission from the neutral gas that pervaded the universe before the first...
KAT-7 Telescopes
The seven-dish MeerKAT precursor array, KAT-7, is the world’s first radio telescope array consisting of composite antenna structures.
Geodesy Programme
Geodesy, also called geodetics, a branch of earth sciences, is the scientific discipline that deals with the measurement and representation...
MeerKAT Telescope
MeerKAT is a radio interferometer located in the Northern Cape province of South Africa (at 30 deg South, 21 deg...
The South African MeerKAT radio telescope, situated 90 km outside the small Northern Cape town of Carnarvon, is a precursor to the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope and will be integrated into the mid-frequency component of SKA Phase 1. The MeerKAT telescope is an array of 64 interlinked receptors (a receptor is the complete antenna structure, with the main reflector, sub-reflector and all receivers, digitisers and other electronics installed). Read More
SARAO Hartebeesthoek Site is located west of Johannesburg, South Africa. built in 1961 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the United States of America. An 85 foot = 26 metre diameter antenna was used to get data from, and send commands to, many unmanned US space probes going beyond Earth orbit. Read More