Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station is a large telecommunications site located on Goonhilly Downs near Helston on the Lizard peninsula in Cornwall, England, UK. Owned by BT Group plc, it was at one time the largest satellite earth station in the world, with more than 25 communications dishes in use and over 60 in total. The site also links into undersea cable lines.
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The Square Kilometer Array
Exploring the Universe with the worlds largest telescope
The Square Kilometre Array will be the world’s largest and most sensitive radio telescope.
An array of thousands of receptors will extend out to distances of 3,000 km from a central core region. The SKA will address fundamental unanswered questions about our Universe including how the first stars and galaxies formed after the Big Bang, how galaxies have evolved since then, the role of magnetism in the cosmos, the nature of gravity, and the search for life beyond Earth.
Sixty seven organisations in 20 countries, together with industry partners, are participating in the scientific and technical design of the SKA telescope which will be located in either Australia – New Zealand or Southern Africa extending to the Indian Ocean Islands. The target construction cost is €1,500 million and construction is scheduled to start in 2016.
Artist's impression of the SKA dishes
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It is with great sadness that we report the death of Professor Steve Rawlings. Steve was a Fellow and Tutor in Physics and Head of Sub-Department of Astrophysics at St. Peter’s College, The University of Oxford.
Steve was a great advocate of the international SKA project over many years, acting as PrepSKA Scientific Co-ordinator and as a member of the SKA Science and Engineering Committee until last year. He played a key role in the UK’s successful bid to host the Office of the SKA Organisation for the period 2012-15.
Steve will be sadly missed and our condolences go out to his family, friends and colleagues around the world.
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This was Steve Rawlings page, but it appears to have been deleted.
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Professor Steve Rawlings
Qualifications: MA, PhD
Position: University Professor
Departmental duties:
Teaching duties: I lecture on vector calculus to first year undergraduates and I am a Tutorial Fellow at St Peter's.
Research Interests: Observational cosmology. Cosmic evolution of galaxies and AGN and feedback mechanisms. Physics of extragalactic radio sources and AGN. Large-scale structure and the cosmic evolution of galaxy clusters. Next-generation radio telescopes and their role in constraining cosmological parameters, dark energy and hot and cold dark matter.
Room: 715
From St. Peter's College University of Oxford
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We regret to report the death in Oxford on 11 January 2012 of Professor Steve Rawlings, Official Fellow and Tutor in Physics. Steve was elected to his Fellowship in 1994, having initially been employed by the College for two years as Lecturer in Mathematics. He undertook his undergraduate and doctoral studies at the University of Cambridge, and remained there to do post-doctoral work prior to moving to Oxford.
Steve held his St Peter’s Fellowship in conjunction with a University Lecturership in Astrophysics, later becoming Professor. He was Head of the sub-Department of Astrophysics of the University of Oxford from 2006 – 2010. He was one of the lead scientists in the international Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project and also played a prominent role in the redevelopment of the Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station in Cornwall as a radio astronomy facility. He was a much liked and admired tutor and colleague within the College and will be greatly missed. We extend our deepest sympathy to his wife Linda
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