Although the two SMART instruments that were built in Taiwan at a cost of tens of millions of NT dollars were designed in the US, for Taiwan to independently undertake the manufacture of the receiver modules, with their superconducting sensors that operate at a temperature of just four degrees above absolute zero, was a new departure.
次毫米陣列觀測的是個全新波段，儀器由美國設計，但要自行製造兩架絕對溫度四度的超導偵測器，對台灣仍是創舉。