The Square Kilometer Array Observatory has been 30 years in the making.
"The SKA telescopes will truly revolutionize our understanding of the universe," Cesarsky said in the statement."They will allow us to study its evolution and some of its most mysterious phenomena in unprecedented detail, and that's really exciting for the scientific community."
The telescopes, which will have a total collecting area of one square kilometer, as their name suggests, will be completed by the end of this decade, but astronomers hope they will be able to start using some of the antennas as soon as their construction is completed. The first four SKA-Mid dishes and six SKA-Low stations will be able to work together as a single telescope, SKAO said in the statement.
The first two antenna stations are due to be completed by May 2023, while the first dish is set to be installed in April 2024, followed by the completion of an additional three to four dishes each month, according to the SKAO statement. Building the telescope will require laying down a vast infrastructure of power and fiber to connect and support the antennas that will be arranged in spirals with a diameter of nearly 2,000 miles . Since June 2021, when the SKAO council finally approved the construction, the organization has selected key companies to complete this part of the installation.
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