Image: Courtesy SKAO

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is an intergovernmental radio telescope project being built in Australia and Carnavon, South Africa. MeerKat is the precursor telescope to the SKA (Square Kilometre Array) project. Fastenright’s stainless steel fasteners were used with assembly of parts for some components of this project.

SKA will be the largest radio telescope in the world, and will incorporate the MeerKAT telescope in its array. In conjunction with dishes in another eight African partner countries, and a further large array in Australia, SKA will seek to answer questions along the lines of: Are we alone in the universe? What happened after the Big Bang, and what is dark matter?