Before 1995 people in Taiwan had no idea how to build a large astronomical instrument, but the SMART program gave the astronomy research community a good grasp of radio technology, and this laid the foundations for the flagship Array for Microwave Background Anisotropy program.
一九九五年之前，台灣根本不知如何蓋一個大型天文儀器，藉由次毫米波陣列計畫的 know-how 引進，天文團隊掌握了電波技術，也為指標性的計畫「宇宙背景輻射陣列計畫」打下基礎。