Cosylab Team Touches Base with SKAO Colleagues
Recently, we had a great time with two of our favourite people from SKAO, Maurizio Miccolis, Software Project Manager, and Euphrasia Mampuru, Junior Software Project Manager, whom we hosted in our Office in Switzerland!
Besides discussing our current project work and its status as an official software supplier to the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO), we found new ways to collaborate even better, setting our sights even more firmly on the Array Assembly 0.5 milestone.
SKA is the international radio-telescope array being built in Australia and South Africa that will become, utilising aperture synthesis, the most sensitive and highest-resolution astronomical observatory in the world.
Cosylab is actively engaged in the Observatory Management and Control Work package, working hand-in-hand with teams from India, Australia, and Canada and, among others, develops the Central Signal Processor Local Monitoring and Control component, crucial for processing digitised data and providing astronomical outputs.
Beginning with ALMA, our company has always had a passion for supporting astronomy, and now we are over the moon to be part of humanity’s efforts to use the SKA to understand the formation of the first stars and galaxies, explore the nature of gravity to map billions of galaxies, exploring dark energy and the cosmic web structure.