Tag: Meerkat

The Royal Astronomical Society’s (RAS’s) 2023 group achievement award winner is South Africa’s MeerKAT team. In its citation, RAS recognised the MeerKAT team “for a...

The Postcode Meerkat surveillance system utilising the Reutech RSR 904 radar is a joint winner of this year's SANParks Innovation Award. The system...

In an effort to contribute to the fight against rhino poaching and other wildlife crime, Toyota South Africa Motors has donated a...

The use of what the national Department of Environmental Affairs terms "appropriate technologies" as force multipliers in the ongoing battle against poachers...

South Africa's MeerKAT radio telescope was officially launched this morning. Made up of 64 dishes, each 13.5m in diameter, the MeerKAT array is...

The MeerKAT radio telescope, a major component of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), has been added to the list of South Africa's...

Denel Division Land Mobility Technologies (LMT) has seen profits drop dramatically, with the company going from a profit-making concern in 2015/16 to...

The Meerkat wide area surveillance system is a major force multiplier for the hard working rangers deployed in the Kruger National Park,...

A group of three poachers move silently through the bush, hidden from the naked eye by the night. Armed with a rifle...

A major component of the recently unveiled Postcode Meerkat wide area surveillance system is the Reutech RSR 904 ground surveillance radar unit. The...

Land Mobility Technologies (LMT) has developed a retractable weapon station called the Meerkat, which will be unveiled at the Africa Aerospace and...

The names of the organisations may sound peculiar, but their members are technically talented and the results of their endeavours are a...

The SKA (Square Kilometre Array) Board has agreed to move the world's largest radio telescope forward to its final pre-construction phase. The design...

The 64th and final foundation for the MeerKAT telescope antenna was poured on Tuesday at South Africa's SKA site in the Karoo....

DCD Protected Mobility has acquired the Springbuck armoured personnel carrier (APC) range from Drakensberg Truck Manufacturers and has begun marketing the series...

South Africa has been awarded the lion's share of the internationally-funded €1.5 billion (R15.6 billion) Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope project....

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) South Africa project plans to explore space using data analytics, in collaboration with IBM. The project office said...

SA foresees increasing collaboration between Chinese and local astronomers and scientists in the face of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope. SA is...

The fourth of April this year is a red-letter day on South Africa's investment calendar. It is the date on which international...

South Africa needs a national astronomy agency, whose main function would be to bring all astronomy activities under a single umbrella body....

The prototype for the MeerKAT radio telescope, KAT-7, has reached a major milestone with the successful completion of all the telescope antennas. The...

SA's demonstrator telescope for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), MeerKAT, passed its first design review with flying colours, says a panel of...

South Africa and Australia are neck-and-neck in the bid to host the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope after the cost metric, which...

The establishment of the SA National Space Agency (Sansa) is not an attempt to pick up where the US left off, says...

The establishment of the SA National Space Agency (Sansa) is not an attempt to pick up where the US left off, says...

South Africa is committed to hosting the Square Kilometer Array (SKA), says Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor. Speaking at an SKA...

South Africa's US-built Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory (HartRAO) has turned 50. The 26m-diameter radio telescope, built with some haste in early 1961,...

The Department of Science and Technology (DST) has hailed the first interferometric image created by four of the BAE Systems-built 12-metre radio...

MeerKAT, the world-class radio telescope being built by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and the National Research Foundation (NRF) in...

South Africa stands a good chance of beating Australia in the race to host the world's most powerful radio telescope. An international...

Construction of the MeerKAT Precursor Array (MPA) in the Groot Karoo has been completed with the successful assembly of the final dish,...

Africa is ready to host the 3000 to 5000-dish 1.5 billion euro (R160 billion) Square Kilometre Array radio telescope, a meeting of...

Astronomy will soon get underway at Klerefontein in the Groot Karoo where the first two 12-metre 4.5mt MeerKAT Precursor Array (MPA) dishes...

The Department of Science and Technology (DST) has announced five new research chairs at universities worth R240 million over 15 years to...