What makes the SKA special is its sheer scale.

SKA项目的特殊之处在于它巨大的体量。

I know a little ska. How fast is ska?

我知道一点斯卡。 斯卡有多快？

The SKA will use about 110 megawatts when up and running, so power bills will be a significant expense.

当SKA准备好运行的时候，预计会消耗百万瓦特的电。因此，会花费巨大的电费。

Both consortia had constructed precursor telescopes that could be integrated into the SKA itself, and each bid had its advantages.

两支队伍已经建造出了各自的前导望远镜（它本身也可以整合进SKA项目），两边都有各自的优势。

The SKA will join the hunt for gravitational waves-ripples in the structure of space predicted by Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity.

SKA项目将参与到捕获重力波（阿尔伯物·爱因斯坦在其广义相对论中把重力形容为空间结构中的涟漪）的研究中。

And that was particularly so in Africa, where the SKA is seen as a good-news story for a continent still struggling to overcome its image as a violent and chronically unstable place.

这一点对于南非来说尤其如此，SKA项目对于这个长期充满暴力和不稳定的大陆来说，无疑是一篇正面新闻报道。

When it is fully up and running (by 2024, assuming no big delays) , the SKA will be more than 50 times more sensitive than any other radio telescope, and able to survey the sky thousands of times faster.

当这个项目竣工并投入使用之时（如果没有任何大的耽搁的话，预计2024年完成），SKA项目的灵敏度将是目前已有的射电望远镜的50倍，它可以探测的宇宙范围是目前的数千倍远。