SKA station cost comparison
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Introduction Current SKA white papers and updates present cost in a variety of ways which makes direct comparisons difficult. To a first approximation the major difference between the proposals is the cost of the antenna stations. These costs have been extracted from the white papers and updates and an attempt has been made to bring them all to a common metric: cost per square metre of physical collecting area.
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