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shodan
07-10-2007, 02:59 PM
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/science_technology/uk+to+host+telescope+headquarters/888572

The UK is to host the global headquarters of a £1billion next generation radio telescopes project, it was announced.

World-wide design efforts for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) - a collection of thousands of antennae spread over 1,250 miles - will be co-ordinated from the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics near Manchester.