Project News

TMT Science Forum 2019 in Xiamen, China

TMT • November 15th, 2019

Xiamen, China – 12 November, 2019 – The seventh Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) Science Forum was held for the first time in China, in the city of Xiamen, Province of Fujian,...

TMT Project Engineers at Vertical Laboratories in California test TMT Warping Harness Components

TMT • November 13th, 2019

The leaf springs required for TMT warping harness mechanism, supporting each one of the 492 primary active segments, are being tested and validated in an Environmental...

Entretien entre Dr Ravinder Bhatia, responsable adjoint du projet TMT, et Dr Dimitri Mawet, professeur d'astronomie à Caltech

TMT • November 6th, 2019

Voici un nouvel entretien avec l’équipe du TMT. Aujourd'hui, nous rencontrons Dimitri Mawet, directeur du laboratoire de Caltech sur les technologies liées à la recherche des...

APM Dr Ravinder Bhatia interviews Caltech Associate Professor of Astronomy Dimitri Mawet

TMT • November 6th, 2019

Here is the next of our interview series with the team of TMT. Today we meet with Dimitri Mawet, director of the Exoplanet Technology Laboratory of Caltech and lead researcher...

TMT Primary Mirror Segment Support Assembly Integration

TMT • November 1st, 2019

Work is underway at TMT Project Lab. near Pasadena.

Searching for Leviathan, Part 5: TMT's Search for Leviathan

TMT • October 29th, 2019

New Answers on the Horizon Black hole science asks many questions, some of which we’ve talked about in this blog: Where do we find black holes? How “big” are they? How old? And...

TMT Board of Governor Member Dr. Saku Tsuneta Visits TMT Technical Lab

TMT • October 28th, 2019

Dr. Saku Tsuneta, Director General of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), recently met with TMT experts at the technical laboratory in Monrovia, California....

TMT Common Software Successfully Passes Pre-Shipment Review

TMT • October 15th, 2019

The Thirty Meter Telescope Common Software (CSW), which has been under development the past two years, recently passed its pre-shipment review, meaning it is consistent with its...

TMT Executive Director Dr. Edward Stone Receives 2019 Shaw Prize in Astronomy

TMT • October 2nd, 2019

TMT International Observatory Executive Director, Dr. Edward C. Stone, has been awarded the prestigious 2019 Shaw Prize in Astronomy for his leadership on the Voyager project.

TMT’s Telescope Control System Passes Preliminary Design Review

TMT • October 1st, 2019

The TMT Telescope Control System (TCS) successfully passed its Preliminary Design Review (PDR) and is now ready to enter its final design phase.