The Square Kilometre Array organisation has revised its plans for telescope construction, after the project failed to secure the level of funding that was originally intended.
On 9 March, the SKA organisation released the construction plans for the SKA radio telescope, which will be built in Australia and South Africa. The aim of the project is to study dark energy, general relativity and the origin of the first black holes in the universe.
The original plan for the telescope, which is expected to begin to be constructed in 2018, was more ambitious than that finally agreed. The organisation has cut in half the number of antennae to be built in Australia, the total is down to 100,000. It has also delayed the construction of one of three scientific instruments envisaged in the original plan until the second phase of construction, which is expected to start around 2025.
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