Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Cryogenic Truck Services Remote Telescopes

Disclaimer: I work for the National Radio Astronomy Observatory [nrao.edu] (the US partner for ALMA).

There's lots more info on the transporters available on the ALMA web site. The two antenna transporters, named "Otto" and "Lore", have their own page at http://almaobservatory.org/en/technology/transporters. [almaobservatory.org] Each transporter actually has 2 500kW power plants (for redundancy) and cooling them at 5km altitude is a major challenge (actually, the datacenter has the same problem -- there's just not enough air up there to re

Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/8h8BVO84BBE/Cryogenic-Truck-Services-Remote-Telescopes

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