Credit: TMT International Observatory / ITCC / L&T
In March 2023, five TMT Segment Support Assemblies (SSA) were completed in Coimbatore, India, by the Larsen and Toubro (L&T) company. On the first row are Nikhil Naik, TMT Production Support Engineer, Karthic Kumar, SSA Work Package Manager at the India TMT Coordination Center (ITCC) and Eswar Reddy, ITCC Programme Director (respectively 8th, 5th and 7th from the left) posing with the L&T SSA production team and members of the ITCC group to commemorate the first five sets of SSA shipped to India’s TMT optics fabrication facility.