Who's involved?
/ More InfoPlanning started for the world’s biggest radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) in September 1993 when the International Union of Radio Science (URSI) established the “Large Telescope Working Group”.
Nowadays, it’s being run by a collaboration of institutions from 19 countries:
Those countries have contributed money, time and talent towards the project. If you’re curious to know what’s going on, the group publishes a newsletter twice a year.
The Australia/New Zealand team includes the Australian and New Zealand governments, the State of WA and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). As well as working on a site in WA for the SKA, they are developing the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP), a new radio telescope that will test SKA technology. In addition to this web site, there are sites by the Australia/New Zealand team, ICRAR (International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research), the SKA international organisation, as well as sites by many of the participating countries.
It takes lots of people, with lots of different backgrounds, to operate a telescope. Maybe you’d like to join us?
This web site has been built as a partnership between:
Visit www.ska.gov.au or e-mail us at ska@innovation.gov.au for more information.