Greenland Telescope
The Greenland Telescope is a 12 m radio telescope in Greenland . It was originally a test telescope for ALMA and was handed over to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Center in 2010 and initially stationed at Thule Air Base in Greenland in 2017 ( first light December 25, 2017). Later it will be installed on the highest point ( Summit Station ) of the Greenland ice sheet at an altitude of 3210 m.
In addition to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Center ( Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics ), the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), the Haystack Observatory of MIT and the Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics of the Academia Sinica in Taiwan, which from 2013 to 2015 also made the adjustments of the cold operating conditions in Greenland.
It will be part of the Event Horizon Telescope and the Global mm-VLBI Array .