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According to Fanaroff the benefits of the legislation included the protection of large scale investments already made in astronomy; and the preservation of an environment for a global astronomy hub that will continue to attract international investment.
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Fanaroff told Sapa both countries had planned smaller versions of SKA, and "site construction on these ... will only start next year".
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"At the moment we are waiting on them to hear if they are going to take up the project again," Fanaroff said.
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Fanaroff confirmed that a Nasa technical team had visited South
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"There were discussions with Nasa of South Africa as a possible site for one of their DSNA stations if and when they decide to proceed with the project," Fanaroff said.
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"If you imagine one million DSTV dishes all linked together and feeding into one computer," explained Fanaroff.
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Fanaroff said the government had undertaken to ensure the availability for the SKA of the world's fastest optical fibre network - capable of transmitting data at one terrabit a second, or a million times faster than the standard broadband available in
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Fanaroff said China, Argentina and Australia were competing against South Africa to host the SKA.
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Fanaroff told Sapa the radio telescope looked at radio waves emanating from the universe, unlike the southern hemisphere's largest single optical telescope, SALT in Sutherland, which looked at light waves.
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Fanaroff said the SKA would also tackle the composition of the universe, recently shown to consist mainly of "dark energy" and
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