Square Kilometre Array
In April 2011, Jodrell Bank was named as the location of the control centre for the planned Square Kilometre Array, or SKA Project Office (SPO). The SKA is being planned by a collaboration of 20 countries and when completed it is intended to be the most powerful radio telescope ever built. By June 2012 a facility to house the project office was well under construction.
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