Atacama Submillimeter Telescope Experiment
The Atacama Submillimeter Telescope Experiment ASTE is a radio telescope for the submillimeter range.
The ASTE telescope with an antenna diameter of 10 m and a high-precision reflector surface was built by Mitsubishi Electric as a preliminary design for an antenna for the Atacama Large Millimeter Array ALMA. It has been in operation since 2004 as a single telescope for frequencies up to 900 GHz in the Pampa La Bola at an altitude of 4860 m near the ALMA site in Chile . ASTE is a project of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan , several Japanese universities and the Universidad de Chile .
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Coordinates: 22 ° 58 ′ 17 ″ S , 67 ° 42 ′ 10 ″ W.