TOKYO, March 14, 2013 - Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) announced today that 16 Atacama Compact Array (ACA) antennas delivered by the company under contract with the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) were feted in an inauguration ceremony at the Operations Support Facility of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Observatory in Chile on March 13. Chilean President Sebastián Piñera and numerous other guests celebrated the inauguration of the observatory, where the company-built ACA antennas, also known as "IZAYOI," comprising four 12-meter and 12 seven-meter antennas, will be used in astronomical observations as part of the 66 large radio telescopes being built in Chile's Atacama Desert. "IZAYOI" ACA antenna cluster, installed at an altitude of 5000 meters ..
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