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 MeerKAT, South African Telescope | |
| Alternative names | Karoo Array Telescope |
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| Location(s) | Meerkat National Park, Karoo Hoogland Local Municipality, Namakwa District Municipality, Northern Cape, RSA |
| Coordinates | 30°42′48″S 21°26′35″E / 30.71322°S 21.44306°E |
| Wavelength | 3 cm (10.0 GHz)–30 cm (1,000 MHz) |
| Diameter | 13.5 m (44 ft 3 in) |
| Collecting area | 9,000 m2 (97,000 sq ft) |
| Website | www |
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MeerKAT, originally the Karoo Array Telescope, is a radio telescope consisting of 64 antennas in the Meerkat National Park, in the Northern Cape of South Africa. In 2003, South Africa submitted an expression of interest to host the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Radio Telescope in Africa, and the locally designed and built MeerKAT was incorporated into the first phase of the SKA. MeerKAT was launched in 2018. MeerKAT is located inside a radio quiet zone within the park.
Along with the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA), also in South Africa, and two radio telescopes in Western Australia, the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) and the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), the MeerKAT is one of four precursors to the final SKA.