KM3NeT - ORCA sea campaigns

Liveblogs during sea campaigns for ORCA.

ORCA is operational

8 March 2019 – Last month, the KM3NeT team of CPPM, Marseille together with the ship crews successfully installed an ORCA detection unit. It was the first unit connected to the refurbished main electro-optical cable to shore. After a few weeks of technology tests, the unit is given free for physics runs. ORCA is operational! Read more

KM3NeT/ORCA detector coming on-line

First detection unit of the KM3NeT/ORCA neutrino detector online Read more

Deep-sea junction box of KM3NeT-Fr redeployed

4 October 2016 – On 29th of September, the junction box of the deep-sea infrastructure at the KM3NeT-Fr Installation site of the ORCA detector was redeployed. Read more

KM3NeT-Fr – First seafloor network node installed

27 Apr 2015: In the early morning of 27th April 2015, the first node of the seafloor network at the KM3NeT-Fr site was successfully installed. This is again an important step in the realisation of the KM3NeT neutrino telescope. Read more

KM3NeT-Fr – Cable comes to shore

23 Dec 2014: For KM3NeT-Fr, about 45 km off-shore Toulon, France, the Main Electro-Optical Cable (MEOC) connecting the deep-sea infrastructure with the shore was deployed. Read more

Qualification of KM3NeT String Deployment method

15 Apr 2013: During the first two weeks of April, an extensive qualification programme has been executed to qualify the novel string deployment method of KM3NeT.

Short videos demonstrating the concept of deployment can be found in our YouTube channel and playlists.

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