It will later be deployed at the Summit Station research camp, located at the highest point of the Greenland ice sheet at an altitude of 3,210 meters (10,530 feet).

The telescope is an international collaboration between: In 2011 the U.S. National Science Foundation gave the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory a 12-meter radio antenna[2] that had been used as a prototype for the ALMA project in Chile.

The telescope will be used to study the event horizons of black holes and to test how general relativity behaves in environments with extreme gravity.

[3][4][5][6] Between 2013 and 2015, the Taiwanese Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics modified the telescope so that it would better work in the cold environment of the Arctic.

[8] The telescope will be deployed at the Summit Station research camp, located at the highest point of the Greenland ice sheet.