Hola MaHigh-School - January 2020

SKA has been a bit quite recently. Or has it?
A lot of things have happened, but all in the
‘boring’ planning phases.
Let us look at the recent achievements (all
from their website www.skatelescope.org).
SKA was agreed upon in the astronomical
community in 2010. It has taken time to set
the objectives. What is it supposed to do?
what type of technology will be required to
do it and when can we expect it to be there?
These things are just not so easy to determine.
Sounds trivial? It was predicted (in 2011) it
would generate an exabyte per day – that is
1018 bytes. Anybody guessing that has been
exceeded dramatically since 2011?
It is now predicted that SKA will generate
more traffic than the entire internet is doing
right now.
This goes for nearly all elements. Of the
entire project.
On top of, accommodation, water, sewage,
electricity and everything engineering must
also be catered for. Tons of concrete to be