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Inauguration of the permanent SKA Headquarters at Jodrell Bank, UK

Timeline - 01 July 2019

Dwingeloo telescope, the Netherlands

Timeline - 01 January 1956

Lovell telescope, Jodrell Bank, UK

Timeline - 01 January 1957

Parkes telescope, Australia

Timeline - 01 January 1961

Effelsberg telescope, Germany

Timeline - 01 January 1971

Suggestions for a large radio telescope first appear in a number of countries

Timeline - 01 January 1980

Meeting of the International Astronomical Union on radio interferometry in Socorro, New Mexico

Timeline - 01 October 1990

The International Union of Radio Science establishes a Large Telescope Working Group

Timeline - 01 January 1993

First dedicated Science Meeting in Guiyang, China

Timeline - 01 January 1995

The name Square Kilometre Array is chosen

Timeline - 01 January 1998

First SKA Science Book published

Timeline - 01 January 1998

Second SKA Science Book published

Timeline - 01 January 1999

Five key science projects are selected as priority research areas

Timeline - 01 January 2003

Third SKA Science Book published

Timeline - 01 January 2004

Left over radar equipment used to jump start radio astronomy

Timeline - 01 January 1940

First interferometric astronomical measurements at radio wavelengths published

Timeline - 01 January 1946

One Mile Telescope, Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, Cambridge, UK

Timeline - 01 January 1964

Pulsar Array, Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, Cambridge, UK

Timeline - 01 January 1967

Very Large Array, New Mexico, USA

Timeline - 01 January 1980

First funding allocated for dedicated technology research and prototyping

Timeline - 01 January 1995

First engineering meeting in Delft, the Netherlands

Timeline - 01 January 1996

First SKA technology book published

Timeline - 01 January 1999

Technology down-select and production of a Reference Design

Timeline - 01 January 2005

Second SKA engineering book published

Timeline - 01 May 2005

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