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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>The History of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) - Born Global · HackerPapers discussions</title><link>https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1212.3497/</link><description>Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.</description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1212.3497/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><item><title>The History of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) - Born Global — mentioned by _djo_</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39202451</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:1212.3497:39202451</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 11:15:47 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; History wise the SKA concept was put forward and pressed forward from Australia in the (contrary to wikipedia) 1980s. It&amp;#x27;s not that simple. As one of The Australian CSIRO&amp;#x27;s own researchers points out, the basic concept of the SKA was independently developed by a number of researchers and institutions including the Project Cyclops proposal by Barney Oliver and John Billingham in 1971. [0] &amp;gt; Then it got internationally political with grant money coming in and backing from China, Britain, etc. It was international from the start, the result of merging a number of different international ideas…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1212.3497/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>astro-ph.IM</category></item></channel></rss>
