South African Astronomical Observatory
MeerKAT project achieves major milestones
9 May 2010, 22:00 UTC
The Karoo Array Telescope (MeerKAT) project, a world-class radio telescope being built by the Department of Science and Technology and the National Research Foundation in the Karoo semi-desert in South Africa near the towns of Carnarvon and Williston, achieved a major milestone in April 2010 when the first four telescopes in the MeerKAT Precursor Array (MPA - also known as KAT-7) were linked together as an integrated system to produce the MeerKAT's first interferometric image of an astronomical object.
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