# MeerKAT

*Observatory*

MeerKAT radio telescope, Karoo

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| --- | --- |
| Where it is | 30.7200° S, 21.4100° E |
| State | ZA |
| What is done there | radio observatory |
| Still working | yes |

Test ranges, observatories and ground stations are a hand-picked list kept in this project rather than a published catalogue: no catalogue answers which of the world's thousands of observing sites belong on a map of it. The article below is what lets the choice be argued with.

## What it is

MeerKAT, originally the Karoo Array Telescope, is a radio telescope consisting of 64 antennas in the Meerkat National Park, in the Northern Cape of South Africa. In 2003, South Africa submitted an expression of interest to host the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Radio Telescope in Africa, and the locally designed and built MeerKAT was incorporated into the first phase of the SKA. MeerKAT was launched in 2018.

## Elsewhere

- This place on the live map: https://www.orbitalmap.space/?at=-30.72,21.41
- The article this row is vouched by: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeerKAT
- Every object: https://www.orbitalmap.space/o/
- What this site is and what it reads: https://www.orbitalmap.space/llms.txt

## Where this came from

Compiled 2026-09-17. Selected by hand for this project. Description from Wikipedia (en). Description: CC BY-SA 4.0.