ASKAP Antenna Passes Factory Testing

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The first Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) 12-metre antenna has passed factory testing.

Australia Telescope National Facility staff travelled to China at the end of September to undertake factory acceptance testing of the first Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) 12-metre antenna.

It was only in November 2008, after an international tendering process, that CSIRO awarded the contract for construction of ASKAP’s antennas to Chinese company CETC54.

For the full story visit the anzSKA website.

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Photo:  The first ASKAP antenna during factory acceptance testing. Credit: Carole Jackson, CSIRO

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  • The University of Western Australia
  • Curtin University

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