This was reported by Ukrinform with reference to the BBC.

As stated, the construction of the project is expected to be completed in 2028. The SDG system will be located in South Africa and Australia and will be headquartered in Great Britain.

According to the report, the radio telescope will perform the most accurate tests of Einstein’s theories and search for aliens.

The telescope’s initial architecture would include 131,000 Christmas tree-like dipole antennas with fewer than 200 parabolic antennas or “dish”.

The aim of the project is to create an effective collection zone with an area of ​​hundreds of thousands of square meters. This will provide SKA with unparalleled precision and resolution when examining objects in the sky.

The system will operate in the frequency range of about 50 megahertz to 25 gigahertz. This should enable the telescope to detect very faint radio signals from cosmic sources billions of light-years from Earth, including those emitted in the first few hundred million years after the Big Bang.

The publication writes that one of the main tasks of the SKA will be to trace the entire history of hydrogen, the most common element in the universe.

Photo: “SKA”