bangalore in search of a view of the birth of the first stars and galaxies almost 13 billion years ago the cosmic dawn the citybased raman research institute rri with partners in australia the us and new zealand has achieved a milestone building the murchison widefield array mwa a radio telescope in australia the digital receivers of the mwa were built at rri rri engineers and scientists worked along with international partners in the remote australian outback installing and commissioning the telescope the completion of the mwa is an important step to the setting up of the international square kilometre array ska a massive global project to build the worlds largest radio telescope across australia and south africa this nextgeneration newtechnology radio telescope aims at heralding path breaking advances in the deployment of distributed and massively parallel antenna technology integrated receivers energy systems communications and computing