Chile is the worlwide capital astronomy, in fact the North of our contry has dozens of observatories and during this year, the most ambitious global radio astronomy, Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), will start working. The Millimeter Wave Laboratory of Universidad de Chile is working hard on the develop of a prototype receiver in Band 1 frequency for ALMA.

In a very different scale, but in much near Santiago also will have Radio telescope, his name is 1.2 meter Millimeter Telescope.

The "mini", as she is affectionately called (by researchers and students, because of its size) is a small area telescope whose objective is to observe large areas of sky in reasonable periods (several years). The unit initially operated on Cerro Tololo Observatory through a partnership with Columbia University, and was transferred to Cerro Calan between 2009 and 2010.