Editing Atacama Large Millimeter Array (section)

==Project timeline==
[[File:The final ALMA antenna.jpg|thumb|The final ALMA antenna.<ref>{{cite news|title=Final Antenna Delivered to ALMA|url=http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1342/|access-date=2 October 2013|newspaper=ESO Press Release}}</ref>]]
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|+ style="font-size:125%;"| Timeline
!style="width:10em;"| Date
! Activity
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|style="text-align:right;" | 1995
|style="padding-left:1.0em;"| ESO/NRAO/NAOJ joint site testing with Chile.
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|style="text-align:right;" | May 1998
|style="padding-left:1.0em;"| Start of phase 1 (design & development).
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|style="text-align:right;" | June 1999
|style="padding-left:1.0em;"| European/U.S. memorandum of understanding for design & development.
|-
|style="text-align:right;" | February 2003
|style="padding-left:1.0em;"| Final European / North American agreement, with 50% of funding from ESO, and 50% of funding shared between USA and Canada.
|-
|style="text-align:right;" | April 2003
|style="padding-left:1.0em;"| Testing of first prototype antenna begins at the ALMA Test Facility (ATF) site in Socorro, New Mexico.
|-
|style="text-align:right;" | November 2003
|style="padding-left:1.0em;"| Groundbreaking ceremony at ALMA site.
|-
|style="text-align:right;" | September 2004
|style="padding-left:1.0em;"| European, North American & Japanese draft agreement, with Japan providing new extensions to ALMA.
|-
|style="text-align:right;" | October 2004
|style="padding-left:1.0em;"| Opening of Joint ALMA office, Santiago, Chile.
|-
|style="text-align:right;" | September 2005
|style="padding-left:1.0em;"| Taiwan joins the ALMA Project through Japan.
|-
|style="text-align:right;" | July 2006
|style="padding-left:1.0em;"| European, North American & Japanese amend agreement on the Enhanced ALMA.
|-
|style="text-align:right;" | April 2007
|style="padding-left:1.0em;"| Arrival of first antenna in Chile.
|-
|style="text-align:right;" | February 2008
|style="padding-left:1.0em;"| Arrival of the two ALMA transporters in Chile.
|-
|style="text-align:right;" | July 2008
|style="padding-left:1.0em;"| First antenna movement with a transporter.
|-
|style="text-align:right;" | December 2008
|style="padding-left:1.0em;"| Acceptance of the first ALMA antenna.
|-
|style="text-align:right;" | May 2009
|style="padding-left:1.0em;"| First interferometry with two antennae at the Operations Support Facility (OSF).
|-
|style="text-align:right;" | September 2009
|style="padding-left:1.0em;"| First move of an ALMA antenna to Chajnantor.
|-
|style="text-align:right;" | November 2009
|style="padding-left:1.0em;"| Phase closure with three antennae at Chajnantor.
|-
|style="text-align:right;" | 2010
|style="padding-left:1.0em;"| Call for shared-risk Early Science proposals.
|-
|style="text-align:right;" | September 2011
|style="padding-left:1.0em;"| Start of Early Science Cycle 0. Sixteen 12-m antennae in the 12-m array.
|-
|style="text-align:right;" | February 2012
|style="padding-left:1.0em;"| First paper published with ALMA data<ref>{{cite journal |title=Pre-ALMA observations of GRBs in the mm/submm range |date=February 2012 |last1=de Ugarte Postigo |first1=A. |last2=Lundgren |first2=A. |last3=Martín |first3=S. |last4=García-Appadoo |first4=D. |journal=Astronomy and Astrophysics |volume=538 |pages=44 |arxiv = 1108.1797 |bibcode = 2012A&A...538A..44D |doi = 10.1051/0004-6361/201117848 |s2cid=59140684 |display-authors=3 }}</ref>
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|style="text-align:right;" | January 2013
|style="padding-left:1.0em;"| Start of Early Science Cycle 1. Thirty-two 12-m antennae in the 12-m array.
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|style="text-align:right;" | March 13, 2013
|style="padding-left:1.0em;"| ALMA Inauguration.
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|style="text-align:right;" | September 23, 2013
|style="padding-left:1.0em;"| 66th and final antenna arrived and accepted.
|-
|style="text-align:right;" | June 2014
|style="padding-left:1.0em;"| Start of Early Science Cycle 2. Thirty-four 12-m antennae in the 12-m array, nine 7-m antennae in the 7-m array, and two 12-m antennae in the TP array.
|-
|style="text-align:right;" | June 2018
|style="padding-left:1.0em;"| ALMA 1000th published paper<ref>{{cite journal |title=Spatial variations in Titan's atmospheric temperature: ALMA and Cassini comparisons from 2012 to 2015 |date=June 2018 |last1=Thelen |first1=A.E. |last2=Nixon |first2=C.A. |last3=Chanover |first3=N.J. |last4=Molter |first4=E.M. |journal=Icarus |volume=307 |pages=380–390 |bibcode = 2018Icar..307..380T |doi = 10.1016/j.icarus.2017.10.042 |display-authors=3 |arxiv=1809.10891 |s2cid=54641701 }}</ref>
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|style="text-align:right;" | March 2020
|style="padding-left:1.0em;"| ALMA shut down due to the [[COVID-19]] crisis
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