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Originally Posted by Eratosthenes
I suppose one could space out half a dozen 12m dishes and claim a 100 sq km array. Not sure how well it will work though
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Mate, I think you misunderstand the nature of the SKA.
When completed it will have more than one square kilometre in collecting surface through an array of antennas distributed over a much larger area.
It is anticipated that there will be in the order of a couple of thousand 15m dishes in total (located across Africa) plus up to a million low frequency antennas (located in Australia)