The first ASKAP dish

Jan 08, 2010 10:36


This is the first dish in ASKAP, the other Square Kilometre Array prototype telescope being built out at Boolardy, by CSIRO. They had just poured the foundations for this dish when I was out there in December - now it's up and ready to go. It'll be joined by 35 identical dishes over the next year or two, to make ASKAP. If the full SKA goes ahead here, there will be around 3500 dishes like this out there...



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