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SALT launching on 11 November

Posted by Hemos on from the watching-for-THEM dept.

The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) will officially be launched on Thursday 10th November. SALT is the largest telescope in the southern hemisphere and equal in size the the largest telescope in the northern hemisphere.

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  1. Re:They're bidding on SKA already? by dascandy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Could you figure out that SKA is INTERNATIONAL?

    For those not understanding the word: International means that more than one nation is working on it. This means for instance that ESA (European Space Agency), those guys from the other side of the planet that fly with Ariadne rockets instead of Space Shuttles (talk about lack of imagination), can help fund it.

    Example: I'm not in America, nor in the USA (explicified for people with dissociative disabilities, such as not recognising the USA as part of America but as equivalent). I work on the SKA.