Radio Telescope Dishes Put to CSIR Lab Test

Submitted by AA South Africa on Fri, 18/05/2012 - 17:44

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The Mechanical Testing Laboratory of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) had thoroughly tested all the materials used to manufacture the innovative composite radio telescope dishes developed in South Africa for the KAT-7, MeerKAT and, hopefully, the international Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio astronomy projects, Engineering News reports.

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http://allafrica.com/stories/201205181151.html