Electromagnetic economies of worth: Repurposing a radio dish and debating technoscientific modernity at the equator

J Merron, S Lamoureaux - Environment and Planning D …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
In 2017, an old satellite dish in Ghana was repurposed into a radio telescope. While highly
celebrated in public, complications surrounding this conversion resulted in criticism in the …

Preparing for the “Internet Apocalypse”: Data Centres and the Space Weather Threat

ARE Taylor - The Routledge Handbook of Social Studies of Outer …, 2023 - taylorfrancis.com
Over the last decade, space weather has become a key target of critical infrastructure
protection efforts. Space weather produces disturbances in Earth's upper atmosphere that …

Big Science Politics and Global Development: The Case of Square Kilometre Array (SKA) in Africa

J Chitereka - 2022 - etheses.whiterose.ac.uk
Big science projects such as astronomy and space science have been framed in terms of a
linear relationship to development. In depoliticisation language, scientists link answering …