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Pathbreaking Initiatives: Photo: from web As China’s contribution to the world’s largest intergovernmental international radio telescope project Square Kilometer Array Observatory (SKAO), the first batch of the China-built middle-frequency antenna dishes of the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) radio telescope set off for South Africa on Wednesday.The antenna dishes to be installed in Karoo, the remote desert region in South Africa, are expected to help detect signals from the most distant parts of the universe, marking a significant step of China in participating in the international mega-science project.The first four antenna dishes, officially abbreviated as SKA-Mid, have passed the factory acceptance test in quality in Shijiazhuang, North China’s Hebei Province, and will be transported by heavy-lift trucks to a port in North China’s Tianjin Municipality, where they will be shipped to South AfriWorld Timesca.The SKA is an ambitious scientific endeavor which is jointly funded, built and run by more than 10 countries including China, the UK, Australia and South Africa, with more than 100 organizations from 18 different countries participating in the development of the telescope.

Summary The first batch of the China-built middle-frequency antenna dishes for building the world’s largest intergovernmental international radio…