The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope project is, in terms of scale, undoubtedly the biggest astronomy programme in the world today. What was once a dream, and then a hopeful project, is now officially structured as the SKA Observatory (SKAO), an international organisation with nine full member countries – Australia, China, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland and the UK – with several other countries involved in the global endeavour and in the process ...