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Reach for the Stars - Engineering challenges for the Giant Magellan Telescope |
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| Venue | National Press Club 16 National Crt, Barton, ACT |
| Date | Thu 05 Aug '10 05:30 PM Thu 05 Aug '10 07:30 PM |
| Free | |
| Event Contact | Colleen Mays |
| (02) 6270 6519 | |
| canberradivision@engineersaustralia.org.au | Downloads | ReachForTheStars.pdf (0.1 meg) |
List of Presenters:
Prof Harvey Butcher RSAA Director & GMT Board member
Mr Arnold Swart Australian GMT Project Manager
Organisations involved:
The GMT project is an International Consortium with the following members;
- Astronomy Australia Ltd.,
- Australian National University,
- Carnegie Institution for Science,
- Harvard University,
- Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, Smithsonian Institution,
- Texas A& M University,
- University of Arizona, and
- University of Texas at Austin.
Dr Carole Jackson
Business Development Manager & ASKAP Antenna IPT Leader CSIRO Astronomy & Space Science
Talk title The Square Kilometre Array a radio telescope for the 21st century
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be a revolutionary radio telescope made up of thousands of antennas, spread across a continent and working together to probe the distant Universe. Astronomers and engineers from more than 20 countries are now designing the SKA with construction planned for 2014-2022. The SKA will cost around $2.5 billion, and will be built in either Australia & NZ or in Southern Africa, with the final site decision made during 2012. The Murchison Radio Observatory in remote Western Australia is the proposed Australia-NZ core SKA site; currently CSIRO and other partners are building a major new radio telescope, the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP), at this amazingly radio-quiet site.
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