The UK government will contribute about £100 million towards the Square Kilometre Array telescope in a bid to retain the project’s headquarters at the Jodrell Bank Observatory, in Cheshire.
The funding, which comes from the science capital fund, is part of a broader announcement of cash for three capital projects by universities and science minister David Willetts at Jodrell Bank on 11 March.
The SKA will include thousands of radio telescopes spread out across Australia and South Africa. It is an international collaboration between 11 countries. The UK has already invested at least £19m in the design work and computing infrastructure for the array, which has an overall budget of €1.7 billion, up from an earlier estimate of €1.5bn.
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