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"Filtering Satellite Interference for Square Kilometre Array Precursor"

The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) is developing techniques to mitigate satellite interference as it copes with increased satellite traffic, particularly in the bands used for its observations. The project's head of data operations, Dr. Matthew Whiting, highlighted concerns about the impact of satellite signals on ASKAP's operations and discussed efforts to predict and mitigate interference. ASKAP's use of Pawsey's "Setonix" supercomputer has also presented challenges due to the project's high data rate, producing four terabytes an hour at its peak.

2 years ago•Source: The Register

"SKA Prototype Telescope Achieves First Light, Revealing Milky Way Core"

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2.315 min•2 years ago

"SKA Prototype Telescope Achieves First Light, Revealing Milky Way Core"

The Square Kilometre Array's radio telescope prototype, SKAMPI, has achieved first light in South Africa, demonstrating its spectral and pulsar capabilities by capturing the Southern sky at 2.5GHz wavelength. The telescope's success will inform the development of the 197-dish SKA-Mid telescope and the construction of the SKA-Low facility in Australia. India has also recently become a full member of the Square Kilometre Array project.

via The Register