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News from CSIRO - ASKAP Live
A new website feature makes it possible to take a 'bird's eye view' over the
Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO) and see the construction
progress of CSIRO's ASKAP radio telescope.
ASKAP Live is an interactive map of the 36 antennas that will make up the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP). In addition to
showing the location of each antenna, ASKAP Live gives pictures and status reports on the construction of each antenna.
All 36 ASKAP antennas are being constructed at the MRO by their manufacturer, the 54th Research Institute of China Electronics Technology Group
Corporation (known as CETC54), with the assistance of CSIRO’s ASKAP team and local contractors.
The antennas are first built and tested in China by CETC54, with the antenna sections then disassembled and shipped to Australia. The antennas are
then reassembled on site at the MRO, approximately 315 kilometres north east of Geraldton in the Mid West region of Western Australia.
Once built, ASKAP will operate as part of CSIRO’s radio astronomy facility for use by Australian and international scientists.
As well as being a world-leading telescope in its own right, ASKAP will be an important test-bed for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), a future
international radio telescope that will be the world’s largest and most sensitive.
Take a look at ASKAP Live
Facts
Austrailian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP)
Group of 36 Radio Antennas.
Each dish 3 storeys high, dish diameter 12m.
Completion date - 2013.
Square Kilometre Array (SKA)
Group of 3000 Radio Antennas.
Construction start date 2015, completion - 2023
Will be 50 times the sensitivity of current radio telescopes.
Country to host the SKA to be decided in Feb 2012.
Acknowledgements
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