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The History of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) - Born Global

Ron Ekers

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Abstract

A brief review of the history of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) from its pre 1990 roots and the global vision which emerged, at the VLA 10th anniversary meeting in 1990, to the major international project we have today. I comment on the evolution of the science and the technology that has occurred during this period. Finally, we can ask: "What have we learned?"

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Conference: Resolving the Sky - Radio Interferometry: Past, Present and Future Manchester, UK April 17-20, 2012
Journal reference
PoS(RTS2012)007
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astro-ph.IMInstrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

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  1. Square Kilometre Array prototype 'scope achieves first light 1 comment

    • > History wise the SKA concept was put forward and pressed forward from Australia in the (contrary to wikipedia) 1980s. It's not that simple. As one of The Australian CSIRO's own researchers points out, the basic concept of the SKA was independently developed by a number of…

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