On the evening of July 6, 2021, Beijing time, BINGO, an international collaborative radio cosmology project, announced its global launch and held a simultaneous launch ceremony in Shanghai. Scientists from Brazil, The United Kingdom, Switzerland and China will build a large single-dish radio telescope in Brazil to observe neutral hydrogen gas in the universe, revealing the structure of the universe and dark energy.

BINGO is short for "Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from Integrated Neutral Gas Observations", led by the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil, with the participation of teams from the University of Manchester, University College London, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and China. The Chinese team is led by co-chief scientist Professor Bin Wang from the Center for Gravitation and Cosmology (CGC) at Yangzhou University, consisting of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Yangzhou University and CETC as the core participating units.

The BINGO project is a major international collaboration project in radio astronomy and cosmology, supported by Brazil, the United Kingdom, France, Switzerland and the National Natural Science Foundation of China. The team of Chinese scientists mainly undertakes core tasks such as BINGO theoretical template, foreground removal algorithm, telescope infrastructure, as well as related scientific research. (See our Research section for more details.)

The launch ceremony was followed and reported by Liberation Daily, Science and Technology Daily, Wen Hui Bao, Eastday.com and other media.