Assembly
The complex will be built primarily by European, U.S., Japanese and Canadian companies and universities. Three prototype antennas have undergone evaluation at the Very Large Array site in New Mexico since 2002.
General Dynamics C4 Systems has been contracted by Associated Universities, Inc. to provide twenty-five of the 12m antennas, and European manufacturer Thales Alenia Space has been signed up to provide the other twenty-five principal antennas (in the largest-ever European industrial contract). The first antenna was delivered in 2008, and the rest will be delivered at about one per month, finishing in 2011.
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