2026-07-26 23:41 UTC
Students on top of the 32-meter radio #telescope dish 📡 near #Accra* https://site.gctu.edu.gh/news/gctu-students-explore-ghana-radio-astronomy-observatory.aspx
* 🗺️ https://graphhopper.com/maps/?point=5.75050,-0.30541&layer=Esri+Satellite
#Ghana 🇬🇭 became the first of South #Africa’s 🇿🇦 eight African #SKA partner countries to complete a functioning #RadioTelescope https://www.sarao.ac.za/science/avn/
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be the world’s largest and most sensitive radio telescope, 50 times the sensitivity and 10 000 times the survey speed of the best current-day telescopes https://www.sarao.ac.za/newsletters/sarao-news/01-2017/outcomes-of-the-4th-ministerial-meeting-of-the-ska-african-partner-countries
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@spaceflight@spacey.space 2026-07-27 00:32
The #SKA Observatory will produce around 600 petabytes of data 💽 each year. That amount would take 200 years to download using an at-home internet connection of 100 megabytes per second. Initial data from the SKA is expected in 📆 2027, with the start of major #science operations in 2029. Handling the large volume and complexity of SKA data requires a global network of specialized computing facilities. #Canada 🇨🇦 committed to establishing one such centre https://theconversation.com/information-collected-by-the-worlds-largest-radio-telescope-will-be-stored-and-processed-by-global-data-centres-255268 #Astronomy #CanSRC