March 22, 2026 By/par Mike Fich (Waterloo Centre for Astrophysics, fich@uwaterloo.ca) and the Canadian CCAT team The primary mirror of the Fred Young Submillimeter telescope (FYST) was lifted into place on March 19! The project is on schedule to have telescope assembly completed in time for the formal “Ribbon Cutting” event on site on April 9, 2026. Telescope commissioning has begun with movement testing and mirror alignment. The telescope remains on track for “First Light

By Patrick Côté (NRC-Herzberg), Tyrone Woods (University of Manitoba) Detector Testing A project to test and characterize large-format CMOS, delta-doped devices for the CASTOR mission is underway at the University of Calgary. This project represents a long-term collaboration between NRC, JPL, Teledyne-e2v, Open University, UCalgary, UManitoba and CSA. The Vacuum UV Calibration Laboratory at the University of Calgary has been significantly upgraded to enable these tests, which

by Gerald Schieven and Brenda Matthews (NRC-HAA) ALMA Cycle 13 Call for Proposals The ALMA Director, on behalf of the Joint ALMA Observatory and the partner organizations in East Asia, Europe, and North America, is pleased to announce that the ALMA Cycle 13 Call for Proposals (https://almascience.org/proposing/call-for-proposals) for scientific observations is now OPEN! ALMA Cycle 13 is currently scheduled for observations from October 2026 to September 2027. Users of any n