From SKA to SKAO: Early Progress in the SKAO Construction
This is an incremental update on the construction of a large-scale astronomical facility, relevant to researchers and engineers in radio astronomy and big data.
The paper describes the early construction progress of the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO), highlighting the role of agile software development and open-source collaboration, particularly in developing a TANGO-based control system, but does not report specific numerical results or outcomes.
The Square Kilometre Array telescopes have recently started their construction phase, after years of pre-construction effort. The new SKA Observatory (SKAO) intergovernmental organisation has been created, and the start of construction ($\mathrm{T_0}$) has already happened. In this talk, we summarise the construction progress of our facility, and the role that agile software development and open-source collaboration, and in particular the development of our TANGO-based control system, is playing.