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I present a brief overview of the SKA projects conducted under the Australian Major National Research Facilities program, and describe the largest of these projects — the SKA New Technology Demonstrator. The goal of this project is to construct an SKA technology demonstrator which will explore and evaluate a number of SKA technologies in a remote radio-quiet environment, while also achieving a restricted set of key science goals. Infrastructure and access to back-end facilities will also be provided for other international SKA groups who wish to evaluate or demonstrate technologies, or conduct science experiments, in a remote, radio-quiet, environment.
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Norris, R. (2005). The Australian SKA New Technology Demonstrator Program. In: Hall, P.J. (eds) The Square Kilometre Array: An Engineering Perspective. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3798-8_8
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