May.06
German astronomers have made an important step towards LOFAR
On May 3, the first meeting of the German Long Wavelength Consortium (GLOW) took place..

March.06
Lunar Infrastructure for Exploration
EADS SPACE TRANSPORTATION, and ASTRON/LOFAR will sign a Memorandum of Understanding to develop a European LUNAR Space Program.


Jan.06
Effelsberg first LOFAR outstation & German LOFAR developments
At the end of October 2005, the Max-Planck-Society granted funding for a LOFAR antenna station in Effelsberg.

Although the LOFAR telescope spread over the Netherlands will achieve unprecedented resolution at low frequencies and will shed light on a lot of interesting problems, it would be fairly easy to extend LOFAR even further with a relatively small number of stations (of order 10 - 20) to achieve 10 times better resolutions. Discussions with various groups across Europe made it clear that there is widespread support for such an extension. The Max-Planck Institute in Bonn has started discussions with LOFAR already and is preparing to build a station at the site of the Effelsberg telescope. Other European institutes and universities are hoping to follow this example and discussions with various international partners in Germany, UK, France, Sweden, Italy and Poland have already been started. These developments have been received with enthusiasm by the Astronomical community in the Netherlands.

To find out more about the individual developments in the countries:
• LOFAR and the German LOng Wavelength consortium (GLOW)
• LOFAR in the UK