The bidding war is still underway between Western Australia & South Africa for the rights to build the most sophisticated radio telescope ever. The $2.5 billion device will be 100 times nore sensitive than any radio telescope built so far and will be backed and funded by a 19 country consortium.
The SKA radio telescope will either be built in the Karoo or south west region of South Africa or in the mid west of Western Australia. The federal government has already committed $80 million to the Australian National Centre of SKA Science in Perth. The centre is a joint inititive involving both federal & state governments, University of Western Australia, Curtin University and CSIRO, and will be used for super computing purposes.
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