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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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'.
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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.
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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'.
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