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Sunset at the Aperture Array Verification System 1.5 (AAVS1.5), an evolution of the antenna design for the SKA’s low-frequency telescope at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in Western Australia. AAVS1.5 uses the fourth generation of SKALA antennas. A team of international institutions has been working on the design for SKA-Low stations including ASTRON (the Netherlands), University of Oxford (UK), University of Cambridge (UK), INAF (Italy), University of Malta (Malta) and ICRAR-Curtin (Australia).
Credit: ICRAR-Curtin University
Contact – The SKA magazine
Contact is the SKA magazine. Published by SKAO's Communications team, the magazine brings together articles from scientists, engineering, design and construction teams, related facilities and telescopes and government partners. In this issue we cover the signing of the SKA treaty and the inauguration of the SKA's Global Headquarters. Also featured is the SKA's first science data challenge for the community, a testing campaign on SKA-Low prototype antennas using drones, as well as a touring exhibition in India and many more contributions covering updates from around the world!
About Contact
Editor: William Garnier W.Garnier@skatelescope.org
Editorial team: Mathieu Isidro, Joe Diamond, Cassandra Cavallaro skao-outreach@skatelescope.org
Design: Carbon Creative & Joe Diamond
We welcome your contributions to Contact! Find out how to submit ideas on the SKA website under News.
All images in Contact are courtesy of SKAO unless otherwise indicated.
Contact is produced and distributed as a digital magazine.
About the SKA
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Organisation leads an international effort to build the world’s largest radio telescope. The SKA will be constructed in Australia and South Africa with a later expansion in both countries and into other African countries. Its global headquarters is located at Jodrell Bank in the UK. The SKA will conduct transformational science and help to address fundamental gaps in our understanding of the Universe including the formation and evolution of galaxies, fundamental physics in extreme environments and the origins of life in the Universe.
