Potential technological spin-offs from MeerKAT and the South African Square Kilometre Array bid

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2012-01-27
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Academy of Science of South Africa
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ENGLISH ABSTRACT: As this issue goes to press, the international Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Site Advisory Committee is considering South Africa and Australia’s respective bids to host the world’s largest radio telescope, with an effective receiving area of one million square metres. First mooted in 1991,1 the project is drawing increasingly close to realisation.
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CITATION: Davidson, D. B. 2012. Potential technological spin-offs from MeerKAT and the South African Square Kilometre Array bid. South African Journal of Science, 108(1/2), Art.#1050, doi:10.4102/sajs.v108i1/2.1050.
The original publication is available at http://sajs.co.za
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Square Kilometre Array, Radio telescope, MeerKAT, Karoo (South Africa) -- Telescope -- Arrays, Antenna, Radio interferometers
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Davidson, D. B. 2012. Potential technological spin-offs from MeerKAT and the South African Square Kilometre Array bid. South African Journal of Science, 108(1/2), Art.#1050, doi:10.4102/sajs.v108i1/2.1050.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/19650
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