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Old 30-07-2015, 09:38 PM
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Originally Posted by clive milne View Post
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)
well that certainly changes the numbers... a bit, doesnt it clive
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