Deputy Director Professor Peter Hall and Dr Steve Ord, both from the Curtin University node of ICRAR, had successful proposals as part of the Federal Government’s approximately $19M package for SKA preparatory work.

Professor Peter Hall received almost $4M for ICRAR to be a major partner in the consortium bidding to design and test the Low-Frequency Aperture Arrays for the SKA – the part of the telescope that will be constructed in WA’s midwest – and Dr Steve Ord received almost $1M for ICRAR’s part in international consortium that is bidding to design the SKA’s correlator – the part of the telescope that combines signals from the individual antennas and produces the images.

A full media release with further details on all the successful parties from Senator Don Farrell, Federal Minister for Science and Research is available here: http://minister.innovation.gov.au/donfarrell/MediaReleases/Pages/Australian-organisations-win-funding-to-help-design-world%E2%80%99s-largest-radio-telescope.aspx

Media Contact:

Kirsten Gottschalk
M: +61 (0) 438 361 876
E: kirsten.gottschalk@icrar.org