Project News

TMT Mirror Segment Shipping Container Design and Prototypes Completed through Collaborative Effort with Larson Packaging Company

TMT • March 8th, 2021

TMT, in partnership with Larson Packaging Company, recently celebrated the successful design and completion of TMT’s Primary Mirror Assembly Shipping Container (PMASC). The...

TMT Selects Coherent for Hexagonal Cutting of Mirror Segments

TMT • February 3rd, 2021

A major milestone for the international Thirty Meter Telescope project (TMT) was reached in October 2020, as TMT selected California-based Coherent, Inc. for the Hexagonal...

Approval of the first Production Roundel for Thirty Meter Telescope’s Primary Mirror

TMT • February 1st, 2021

The Thirty Meter Telescope Optics Group recently reached a critical production milestone, with the approval of the first polished roundel (# SN023) for TMT’s Primary Mirror...

TMT PROJECT MANAGER DR. GARY SANDERS RETIRES AFTER NEARLY 17 YEARS

TMT • January 29th, 2021

Today about 100 friends and colleagues joined virtually to celebrate and honor Dr. Gary Sanders, who officially retired at the start of 2021 after nearly 17 years of leading the...

TMT’s Telescope Utility Services Final Design Reaches Huge Milestone

TMT • January 26th, 2021

As an extremely complex organization of systems all interacting together, TMT will require an elaborate Telescope Utility Services (TUS) infrastructure to enable operations...

Inauguration of the ITOFF facility, CREST Campus, IIA, India

TMT • January 20th, 2021

The newly built India-TMT Optics Fabrication Facility (ITOFF) was recently inaugurated by Vice President of India Shri. Venkaiah Naidu at the Center for Research and Education...

Dr. Gary Sanders to Retire

TMT • December 7th, 2020

Dr. Gary Sanders, who has led the TMT Project as Project Manager with distinction since its inception, will retire at the start of 2021.

TMT Optical Test Instruments System Passes Preliminary Design Review

TMT • October 26th, 2020

TMT Optics and Systems Engineering teams have reached another major milestone, with a successful “gate” review of the TMT optical Test INstruments System (TINS) preliminary design.

Congratulations to Professor Andrea Ghez and the Astronomy Community!

TMT • October 9th, 2020

Many Congratulations to Andrea Ghez on the award of the Physics 2020 Nobel Prize for her work on the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the center of our galaxy, the...

TMT Acknowledges the California Fires and Mount Wilson

TMT • September 18th, 2020

Many major wildfires are devastating lands and homes across the entire west coast, including in California, Oregon and Washington. Although wildland fires are common at this...