From left: Francisco Delgado, John Rogers, Marianne Cox (Giant Magellan Telescope Organization), Gelys Trancho, Jason Weiss, Jimmy Johnson and Kim Gillies. Remote participants: Edward Chapin (National Research Council Canada, Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics)
The new facility, which is close to completion, is located on the Hosakote campus of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics and is part of the Centre for Research and Education in Science and Technology (CREST). The facility will host the production of TMT mirror segments and high-tech optical equipment.
Front left to right: Mr. Arun Ramchandani, Vice President & Head, Product & Technology Development, L&T Defense, and Professor Jayant Murthy, Director, IIA.
TMT and L&T team participated in a kick-off meeting on 30 January 2019 to produce TMT Mirror Segment Support Assemblies.
In December 2018, India TMT signed a contract with L&T Company for the production of the Segment Support Assemblies, a major component of TMT’s main mirror hardware.
Visit of TMT Technical Laboratory on December 10, 2018
Visit of TMT Technical Laboratory on December 11, 2018.
Group of TECI graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and early-career professionals from partners in the Thirty Meter Telescope International Observatory visiting TMT Lab on 6 December 2018 during the annual TECI workshop. The workshop is designed to support international collaboration among the TMT partners including Caltech, Canada, China, India, Japan, and University of California. A full week program to build community among TMT future users and leaders, and connect them to current TMT leaders.
TMT optics and system engineers and international review committee photographed at TMT’s headquarters in Pasadena on July 26, 2018 during M1S Final Design Review.
Engineers from TMT project office were happy to welcome TMT International Observatory (TIO) Board Members at their technical laboratory near Pasadena. The visit was organized over the course of TIO Board of Directors meeting on Tuesday 31 July 2018. This was a unique opportunity to present the multi segment integration and test facility that will be used to verify and test all TMT primary mirror system components and assemblies prior to full-scale production. TIO Board Members are pictured in front of the primary mirror cell prototype that will host seven full size segments to verify the performance and operation of the primary mirror control system.
Mockup of the high pressure CO2 cable wrap at the TMT technical laboratory. Thomas Chylek, TMT opto-mechanical engineer (seen from the back) is holding a CO2 gun to demonstrate the testing of the cleaning process that will be used to drive any dust particle off the TMT mirror surfaces (primary, secondary and tertiary mirrors).
Alastair Heptonstall, TMT opto-mechanical engineer, is testing the guide flexure of the M1 segment to measure the component stiffness. Each TMT individual segment must be controlled to create a continuous M1 mirror. TMT control system can move segments individually and the guide flexures allow the segments to move while resisting lateral motions. This test is part of the performance assessment to ensure the control system can align the mirror to achieve the required telescope performance.
