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New Zealand Joins Aussie Bid For Vast Radio Telescope Array

Posted by timothy on from the was-in-the-neighborhood dept.

schliz writes "A radio telescope in New Zealand has joined five in Australia to challenge Southern Africa to host the international Square Kilometer Array (SKA) in 2012. The newly connected telescope in Warkworth, New Zealand (PDF), is connected to an Australian data processing facility via a 1 Gbps network. Each telescope reportedly produces up to 1 Tb of data per hour of observation. IBM expects the whole of the SKA to produce an exabyte of data per day."

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  1. So, what? by Frans+Faase · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I do not understand what is so interesting about this. Another dish added to various international VLBI networks. There is also one such dish near Urumqi in China in a very remote area. There are so many of these kind of dishes around the world. Even here in the Netherlands we have one. But we also have LOFAR, which is also capable of producing large amounts of data everyday. This kind of systems usually only operate for short periodes and the data produced are immediately processed and only the results are stored.

  2. Is this really a good idea? by CuteSteveJobs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Think twice, New Zealand. If the aliens start beaming you back porn, then Australia will have to filter your radio telescopes.