{"id":9574,"date":"2012-04-03T03:47:15","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T01:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/update-1-s-africa-australia-in-celestial-spat-for-new-telescope\/"},"modified":"2012-04-03T03:47:15","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T01:47:15","slug":"update-1-s-africa-australia-in-celestial-spat-for-new-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-s-africa-australia-in-celestial-spat-for-new-telescope\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-S.Africa, Australia in celestial spat for new telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* New telescope will be 10,000 times faster than any other<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* South Africa has accused Australia of dirty tricks<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Australia has flagged security concerns in S. Africa<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Winner may be announced on Wednesday<\/p>\n<p> (Adds comment from SKA committee representative in London)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Jon Herskovitz and James Grubel<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG\/CANBERRA, April 2 (Reuters) &#8211; Deadly rivals on<br \/>\nthe rugby field, cricket pitch and in the underground mining<br \/>\nsector, South Africa and Australia are now squaring off in a new<br \/>\ncontest: to win the right to host the world&#8217;s most powerful<br \/>\ntelescope.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The duo are finalists in a tender to host the device, known<br \/>\nas the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), which will be 50 times more<br \/>\nsensitive and 10,000 times faster than any other telescope on<br \/>\nthe planet, according to the international consortium funding<br \/>\nthe 2 billion euro ($2.66 billion) project.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The fight has turned nasty, with South Africa accusing<br \/>\nAustralia of dirty tricks and Australians raising security<br \/>\nconcerns about building such an expensive project in South<br \/>\nAfrica, which has high rates of violent crime.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa has even accused Australia of &#8220;selectively<br \/>\nleaking&#8221; data about what are supposed to be secret deliberations<br \/>\nin order to boost its own bid.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* New telescope will be 10,000 times faster than any other * South Africa has accused Australia of dirty tricks * Australia has flagged security concerns in S. Africa * Winner may be announced on Wednesday (Adds comment from SKA committee representative in London) By Jon Herskovitz and James Grubel JOHANNESBURG\/CANBERRA, April 2 (Reuters) &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-9574","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}