SKA refers to the Square Kilometre Array, a massive international radio telescope project based in South Africa and Australia. This project aims to build the world's largest and most sensitive radio telescope, consisting of a large number of telescopes or instruments, called an array, to be spread over long distances, significantly advancing our understanding of the universe.

This project runs over several years, starting in 2007 with the manufacture of the first prototype radio telescope dish completely from composite materials at the HartRAO facility near Hartbeespoort dam. This XDM radio telescope dish was designed, analysed and manufactured by MMS Technology in collaboration with IST.

The next phase of the project was the installation of seven radio telescopes in 2009, dubbed KAT-7, near Carnarvon in the middle of the Karoo, the final SKA site. MMS Technology was also responsible for the design, analysis, manufacture and measurement of the tooling as well the composite antenna dishes for BAE.

The dishes were moulded with a resin infusion process as a single composite sandwich component, already incorporating the radio reflective medium within the laminate. The steel backing was bonded onto the composite laminate.