SKAO in the news

News of the SKAO Council’s decision to approve the start of SKA construction truly made headlines around the world, with some 300 media articles written, reaching a total of more than one million readers! Below is a selection of the coverage, with the publication’s average readers per month and estimated article reads on the day of publication. View Contact via the Issuu app to see the links.

Forbes (68M readers, 56,000 article reads) Say Hello To The $2.2 Billion ‘SKA’ As Humanity’s Biggest-Ever Telescope Gets The Green Light

Financial Times (16M readers, 13,000 article reads) Say Hello To The $2.2 Billion ‘SKA’ As Humanity’s Biggest-Ever Telescope Gets The Green Light

From around the SKA world...

China - Tencent’s QQ (213M readers, 177,000 article reads) The construction of the square kilometer array radio telescope starts (in Chinese)

France - Ciel & Espace

Feu vert pour lancer la construction des 2 plus grands observatoires radio du monde: SKAO (in French)

Germany - Heise (9M readers, 7,500 article reads) 130.000 Antennen: Baubeginn für weltgrößtes Radioteleskop (in German)

India - Saam TV News

India - The Indian Express (68M readers, 56,000 article reads) Construction of the world’s largest radio telescope to begin on Thursday

Italy - Il Messaggero (11M readers, 8,000 article reads) Trent’anni di lavoro, al via la costruzione di Ska (in Italian)

The Netherlands - De Volkskrant (4M readers, 2,600 article reads) De krachtigste radiotelescoop ter wereld krijgt groen licht om ‘fascinerende geheimen’ te onderzoeken (in Dutch)

Portugal - Expresso (2.4M readers, 2,000 article reads) Se houver uma civilização desenvolvida a 475 mil milhões de quilómetros de distância, o SKAO vai detetá-la. Portugal está no projeto (in Portuguese)

Spain - El Espanol (32M readers, 26,000 article reads) El sello español en el SKA, el nuevo radiotelescopio más grande del mundo (in Spanish)

...and beyond

Brazil - Canaltech (14M readers, 11,600 article reads) Aprovada a construção do maior radiotelescópio do mundo — o SKA Observatory

Iran - Euronews Persian (1M readers, 800 article reads) The world’s largest radio telescope will be built after 30 years of planning (in Persian)

Middle East - RT Arabic (9M readers, 7,500 article reads) Construction of a unique radio telescope begins (in Arabic)

Norway - Digi.no (318k readers, 265 article reads) Verdens største radioteleskop er endelig underveis (in Norwegian)

Russia - Vesti VGTRK (9M readers, 7,500 article reads) Егождали30лет:начатостроительствоуникального радиотелескопа (in Russian)

Turkey - Milliyet (35M readers, 29,000 article reads) Dünyanınenbüyüğününinşasıbaşladı!Evreninsırlarını keşfedecek (in Turkish)

Vietnam - Lao Động (7M readers, 5,800 article reads) Mạnglướikínhthiênvănvôtuyếnlớnnhấtthếgiớiđangđược xâydựng (in Vietnamese)

And in other news…

Interesting Engineering

Life in 2050: A Glimpse at Space in the Future – A look at the ways space studies will advance in the coming decades with the advent of new facilities including the SKA telescopes.

Space in Africa

Cambridge Researchers Contribute to African Development with Radio Astronomy – Training and development is a key impact of the SKA project in Africa, as this piece highlights.

SpaceNews

Radio telescope faces “extremely concerning” threat from satellite constellations.