The United States Extremely Large Telescope Program (US-ELTP) today announced it has received $15.3 million from the National Science Foundation to support further design and development of advanced optical technologies and user services. The funding consists of one-year awards of $2.3 million to NSF鈥檚 NOIRLab managed by AURA, and $6.5 million...
Coherent installs an advanced ultrasonic machine tool to speed hexing of the 1.5鈥痬 diameter Thirty Meter Telescope mirror segments.
On 18 July 2023, Sergio Salata,聽Astronomy Project Manager of Added Value Solutions (AVS) in Tenerife, visited the TMT office to tell us about the astronomy projects and other science equipment development projects the AVS company had been involved with. His short talk and discussions with project staff covered astronomy instrumentation, cooling, cryostats, opto-mechanics and other topics of relevance to TMT development.
An important component of TMT鈥檚 Primary Mirror Control Sensing System and the Alignment and Phasing System is progressing to its final design and qualification stage: the sensor dust boots.
Exciting news out of India: TMT鈥檚 Primary Mirror Segment Polishing and Metrology Equipment have been successfully installed in the India-TMT Optics Fabrication Facility. The Stress Mirror Polishing machines and metrology tools involved in the production of TMT鈥檚 aspherical polished mirrors (aka roundels) were shipped to India to be installed and tested over several months.
The One Sky Project, led by the 鈥業miloa Astronomy Center and sponsored by the Thirty Meter Telescope, has produced a series of seven short fulldome films and a compiled full-length feature film focusing on cultural and Indigenous astronomy. This international collaboration seeks to build cross-cultural connections and increase understanding of different indigenous perspectives while demonstrating how our one sky connects us all. The films,...
The TMT Refrigeration Cooling System (REFR) will proceed to the Preliminary Design phase next year after successfully passing its Conceptual Design Review closeout meeting on May 3, 2023.
How will TMT make its 492 primary mirror segments behave as a single mirror of 30 meter diameter? TMT鈥檚 Alignment and Phasing System (APS) team has come up with the solution that will keep all of TMT鈥檚 mirrors aligned to a high precision of about 10 nm root-mean-square (RMS).
Following the first Science webinar held in January 2023 and providing a status update of the Thirty-Meter-Telescope (TMT) project, the TMT Science Advisory Committee (SAC) and TMT project organized last month a second webinar, this time about the science instruments capabilities of TMT.
Closely following the international Astronomy Day celebration, Hilo AstroDay was hosted at Prince K奴hi艒 Plaza in Hilo, to share the joy of astronomy and knowledge with local communities on Saturday 6 May.
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