SPACE
The US National Finance Foundation has invested $9.5-million in expanding the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionisation Array (Hera) telescope’s capabilities, which will allow the array to expand to 220 radio dishes by 2018, SKA announced on Wednesday. Hera, which was recently granted the status of a Square Kilometre Array (SKA) precursor telescope, currently has 19, 14-m-wide radio dishes at SKA South Africa’s Losberg site, near Carnarvon, in the Northern Cape, which will be increased to 37.
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