Sweden’s biggest contribution yet to the world’s largest radio telescope
Sweden’s biggest contribution yet to the world’s biggest radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), has passed a major milestone. An advanced – and beautiful – feed horn, developed at Chalmers University of Technology, has been delivered for testing in Canada.
The sensitive feed horn – with an opening almost one metre across, and weighing almost 100 kilograms – will help astronomers to tell the history of the universe. Built at Onsala Space Observatory and now delivered for testing in Canada, it will eventually be fitted on each of the 133 dish antennas at the SKA's South African