15 October 2018
SETI partners with MeerKAT to search for alien life
... of 64 interlinked radio antennas currently being built some 90 kilometres outside the small Northern Cape town of Carnarvon. MeerKAT also serves as a precursor for the Square Kilometre Array; a far-reaching international collaboration that will one...
16 July 2018
Science begins with South Africa's super radio telescope
... South Africa’s Deputy President Mr David Mabuza unveiled MeerKAT, a set of 64 telescopes that has already joined ...largest telescope in remote parts of both Africa and Australia. MeerKAT has already begun science operations and one of its first public...
22 September 2021
Telescope built by Karoo locals releases data to astronomers around the world
The HERA telescope, an array of 350 antennas situated next to MeerKAT in the Northern Cape province of South Africa, is being built by a team of local artisans from the town of Carnarvon. It ...
August 2020
Interstellar aspirations
.... Additional agreements are in place to use the new MeerKAT Square Kilometre Array (SKA) precursor in South Africa,...and this will be the primary objective of the MeerKAT/SKA Breakthrough Listen programme. Breakthrough Starshot The Breakthrough ...
