SETI public: Green Light for ALMA Radio Telescope

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By the Editors of Sky & Telescope

Green Light for ALMA Radio Telescope
February 25, 2003 | An international agreement signed today marks a major step toward the construction of the world's most powerful radio telescope. Signing the document were Rita Colwell, director of the U.S. National Science Foundation, and Catherine Cesarsky, director general of the European Southern Observatory. Known as the Atacama Large Millimeter Array, or ALMA, the $650-million project will consist of sixty-four 12-meter-wide radio dishes clustered together at an altitude of 5,000 meters in the Chilean Andes. Interconnected to work together as a single dish, ALMA should provide unprecedented imaging capability at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths. Tests of a prototype system will begin next year, and project officials expect to complete the array's construction by 2011.
For more information on ALMA and the NSF-ESO agreement, see:
http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2003/pr-04-03.html

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