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South Africa and Australia will share the Square Kilometer Array, a project that that will see the construction of the world’s biggest radio telescope complex and may reveal whether there is life beyond earth.
The member countries of the group organizing the project unanimously decided that both of the shortlisted candidate nations should host the project. The majority of the first phase dishes will be built in South Africa, which is considered a “preferred site,” the group said in an e-mailed statement today.
“It’s an international, global project and one of the important things we seek to achieve is the broadest possible support for it,” Michiel Van Haarlem, the director-general of the Manchester, England-based organizing body, said in an interview at The Netherlands’ Schipol airport, where the decision was taken. “That’s needed, it is an expensive project and we need as many countries as possible to carry the costs.”
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