South Africa partnered with Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia and Zambia to host the world’s largest radio telescope.

“Our partnerships with the eight other African nations that will host remote stations of the SKA remains strong and we are developing with them, in preparation of the full SKA, a new African network of telescopes, the African Very-long Baseline Interferometry Network or AVN.

“We are making a valuable contribution to the training of the next generation of African scientists and engineers,” said the Minister, speaking at the Entrepreneurial Mindset Conference at Wits University in Johannesburg on Monday.

The AVN is an array of radio telescopes throughout Africa as an extension of the existing global Very Long Baseline Interferometry Network (VLBI).

Available: http://www.sanews.gov.za/south-africa/sa-ska-partners-developing-new-african-network-telescopes