Our scientific observations involve a large number of steps to ensure the data quality for which we are world-renowned, but what if we could further improve productivity by simulating our operations? That's just what the recent HILSE (Hardware in the Loop Simulation Environment) project achieves: providing an infrastructure that is representative of the production environment for software and firmware...
Cosmos keeps us very active, but we must also take our eyes off the sky and focus on our bodies to stay healthy. And that's just what some of our colleagues from both OSF and SCO have done, and there are those who have gone far in their love for the sport... all the way to Navarino Island! Hernán...
Another year has passed and with it a new winner of the "Care" award of our Fundamental Statements. This time the award went to Octavio Hernández., who has been with us for more than 15 years as Operations and Maintenance Planner/Coordinator. An award that caught Octavio off guard. "I am very grateful to my colleagues for the recognition and...
This week, the 241st American Astronomical Society (AAS) conference was held in Seattle, USA. ALMA was part of almost a hundred research results and several presentations. In addition to three press conferences and two talks on the past and future of the observatory, ALMA data appeared in almost a hundred scientific presentations. "ALMA's significant presence at this important scientific...
We are happy to announce that ALMA signed a joint proposal agreement with telescopes from the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), the European Southern Observatory (ESO), and the US National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO). "This is a new service to drive more ambitious science projects that go beyond the capabilities of an individual observatory," explains Sergio Martin, our Operations...
Several colleagues have started to create libraries of specific interests that benefit our entire community. "It all started with a simple request to acquire 1 or 2 technical books of my interest," tells us José Luis Ortiz, Digital Systems Technical Lead, who took the initiative together with the Engineering Service Group team. "But in the process we realized that...