South Africa’s scientists want the next government to halt declining funding and urge universities to do more to protect ...

South Africa’s astronomical history ... The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) emerged as an opportunity to host a big international radio telescope which could, among other things, investigate ...

South Africa's Karoo region is a vast semi-arid ... and is a precursor to the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) project. When it's fully up and running—currently estimated to be in 2028 or 2029 ...

Including the telescope hosting countries, there are over ten countries -- Canada, China, Germany, France, India, Italy, the ...

In the new study, the NAOC researchers used an indirect method known as Faraday rotation to determine the exact shape and ...

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and South Africa’s Air Traffic and Navigation Services (ATNS) ...

MDA Space Ltd. (TSX: MDA), a trusted mission partner to the rapidly expanding global space industry, today announced it has ...

His submission was supported by Professors Reece Alberts and Francois Retief, both of the Protected Areas Research Group at North West University. Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) lie at the ...

Mauritius and South Africa. These research communities participate in scientific research using the SKA telescope and are a key part of new data-driven economies emerging across Africa. This training ...

A prime example is MDA Space, which has been awarded the SKAO construction contract to develop and integrate the correlator and beamformer for the SKA-Mid telescope in South Africa. In addition to ...

Astronomy on the continent has been given a much needed boost with Ghana’s converted radio telescope between it and South Africa, to conduct scientific observations.

Read more: How the SKA telescope is boosting South Africa's knowledge economy Over the past five years, MeerKAT has made remarkable contributions to both South African and international science.