While LOFAR started as a national project in the Netherlands, consortia of institutes and researchers in several other countries soon placed orders to build one or more LOFAR antenna stations there. The enormous range of distances between the stations yield unique capabilities for detailed images of the sky.
The collaboration was consolidated with an MoU signed in 2010 in the presence of H.M. Queen Beatrix, and establishment of the International LOFAR Telescope (ILT) as a foundation under Dutch law. After a decade, the ILT has grown to encompass nine countries. Next to the Netherlands (38 stations), these are Germany (six stations), Poland (three stations), France, Ireland, Latvia, Sweden, and the United Kingdom (one station each); stations in Italy and Bulgaria are funded to be built soon. Still more countries
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