News
July 2010
The KM3NeT consortium has published a preliminary version of the
Technical Design Report (TDR) for the KM3NeT research facility in the Mediterranean Sea. A printed version of the report is in preparation.
March 2010
New pages has been added to the website with images, clips and movies of technical designs and prototypes that emerged from the Design Study:
images and
clips and movies.
February 2010
On February 13, 2010 a succesfull deployment of an other mechanical model of a KM3NeT detection unit took place close to the candidate site near Capo Passero, Italy. Also this compact deployment method followed by unfurling was succesfully tested (see
Quicktime movie)
December 2009
On December 16, 2009 a succesfull deployment of a mechanical model of a KM3NeT detection unit took place close to one of the candidate sites near Pylos, Greece.
It was the first time that a compact deployment of a self buoyant system followed by unfurling of the detection unit was tested.
(see short clip of the unfurling
wmv-format or
avi-format).
