ARGENT ACTIVE OPEN commissioned 1979
Station status: ACTIVE
Site ARGENT
Primary computation and materials work.
- Directorate
- Directorate I
- Status
- ACTIVE
- Commissioned
- 1979
- Last routine report
- 2025
Unresolved references
- Reference unavailable SEN-02-000
- Location
- Central Canada — a decommissioned hydroelectric substation chosen for the power feed.
- Operational history
- Built into infrastructure that outlived its original purpose. The 1993 loss-of-reference incident remains the teaching case for why time is treated as an instrument, not a given. Public tours are not offered.
Field notes
Experiments
- Experiment Delta MIXED
- Atlas refusal period MIXED
- Travelling standard return test NEGATIVE
Timeline
- 1993 ARGENT incident
- 1998 Sentinel Grid
- 2011 Atlas Engine
- 2016 Project Polaris