Giant Magellan Telescope Mount Fabrication Begins
Manufacturing and assembly of the largest telescope mount built in the United States has begun. In partnership with Ingersoll Machine Tools and OHB Digital Connect, fabrication of the 39-meter-tall precision moving structure is taking place across multiple states over the next six years. When complete, the mount will be shipped to the Giant Magellan Telescope site in Chile for reassembly.
Manufacturing and assembly of the largest telescope mount ever built in the United States has begun: the 39-meter tall precision moving structure will be built in partnership with Ingersoll Machine Tools and OHB Digital connect over the next six years. When complete, the mount will be shipped to the Giant Magellan Telescope – GMTO Corp. site in Chile for reassembly. The GMT, equipped with enormous mirrors built at Steward Observatory's Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab, will have 50 million times the light gathering power of the human eye.