... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . ... Survey Telescopes . ... The first European antenna for ALMA is moved the short distance from the Site Erection Facility, where it was assembled, to the Operations Support Facility on one of the giant yellow ALMA transporter vehicles. ... This short trip marks the handover of the antenna from the AEM Consortium (Thales Alenia Space, European Industrial Engineering, and MT-Mechatronics), who built it, to the ALMA Observatory. ...