A South African array of sixty-four 13.5-meter radio dishes in the Northern Cape's Karoo semi-desert, completed in 2018 as a precursor and now an integral part of the Square Kilometre Array. It has produced some of the most detailed radio images ever taken of the center of the Milky Way and of clusters of galaxies.
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In 2003, South Africa submitted an expression of interest to host the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Radio Telescope in Africa, and the locally designed and built MeerKAT was incorporated into the first phase of the SKA.
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officially inaugurated by Deputy President David Mabuza on July 13, 2018
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MeerKAT, originally the Karoo Array Telescope, is a radio telescope consisting of 64 antennas in the Meerkat National Park, in the Northern Cape of South Africa.
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