That day, all expectations were set at the port of Antofagasta. The first ALMA antenna had finally arrived in our hands and it was necessary to accompany its transfer to the Vertex hangar at OSF. The television and print media of that October 2007 were in charge of recording that milestone that, almost 16 years later, Héctor Ceballos, our...
It was like any other summer day at the beach. The family was having lunch in their apartment, in a dining room overlooking the terrace. They began to talk about the universe, and as the minutes passed, about the existence of aliens and UFOs that could be living among us. Catalina was only ten years old and does not...
It has been almost four months since we suffered a cyber-attack on our computer system. An emergency that has undoubtedly had an impact on our operations. However, we have now recovered from that event. After 48 days of hard work by our IT team, on December 19 we resumed our astronomical observations. And more recently, on January 26 it...
When we work, we are not alone. Every day we share and collaborate with our colleagues. And each one has a special identity that characterizes him or her. At ALMA, we make sure that these differences are valued and respected. An example of this is Andrea Corvillón, our Proposal Handling Team Lead, who has been working at ALMA for...
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...