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Four of CSIRO's new ASKAP antennas are pictured at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in Western Australia, October 2010. Credit: Ross Forsyth, CSIRO.

Outstanding SKA service awarded, January 2012
CSIRO's SKA Executive Officer Dr Michelle Storey has been awarded a Public Service Medal in this year's Australia Day Honours list. Read more.

New Minister visits the MRO, January 2012
Senator Chris Evans, the new Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Science and Research, visited the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory on Thursday 19 January 2012 to see for himself the progress that is being made on the construction of CSIRO's ASKAP radio telescope. Read more.

Great progress for ASKAP in 2011, December 2011
The past 12 months has seen the construction of CSIRO's ASKAP radio telescope and infrastructure at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory take great leaps forward. Read more.

Event celebrates industry involvement in ASKAP, December 2011
Representatives from more than 20 companies came together on Wednesday 14 December 2011 to celebrate the recent milestones achieved by CSIRO's ASKAP radio telescope project. Read more.

PAF installation gives green light to phase closure, December 2011
Two more phased array feeds (PAFs) have been installed on CSIRO's ASKAP radio telescope at the Murchison Radio Astronomy Observatory in Western Australia, bringing the total number of PAFs now in place to three. Read more.

ASKAP Live flies over the MRO, November 2011
A new website feature makes it possible to take a 'bird's eye view' over the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO) and see the construction progress of CSIRO's ASKAP radio telescope. Read more.

PAF successfully 'snaps' sky shot, November 2011
CSIRO's new phased array feed (PAF), or 'radio camera', technology has been successfully demonstrated by taking its first detailed image of the sky. The image shows the raw on-sky port patterns from the PAF, which has been undergoing testing on a 12-metre antenna at CSIRO's Parkes Testbed Facility. Read more.

Simulating ASKAP skies takes strides, November 2011
A supercomputer at the new iVEC Pawsey Centre in Perth has been used for the first time by CSIRO's ASKAP Computing team to simulate how data collected with ASKAP will be processed to create images of the 'radio sky'. Read more.

Two ASKAP antennas driven in unison, November 2011
Two of ASKAP's antennas are seen moving in unison for the first time in a report that aired on ABC TV's 7.30 program on 2 November 2011. Read more.

First PAF successfully installed on ASKAP antenna, October 2011
On Sunday 23 October, the first full-sized phased array feed (PAF) was successfully installed on an ASKAP antenna at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory. The installation marks an important step towards the major ASKAP milestone known as BETA, or the 'Boolardy Engineering Test Array'. Read more.

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