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http://azstarnet.com/news/science/tucson-based-projects-are-closer-to-probing-the-universe/article_609ed39e-6d6d-592f-bfee-a8ba8dbaae42.htmlVictor Krabbendam, the LSST project manager, said $27.5 million to begin construction is in this year’s federal budget, and $80 million is proposed by President Obama for next year.The project passed its design review in December before a panel convened by the National Science Board, the governing board of the National Science Foundation, principal funding agency for the telescope.Approval by that board in May would mean a quick start to construction, said Krabbendam.“There are no worries about our being ready. We’ve been working hard with the NSF to make sure everything is in place and ready to go,” he said.While the telescope will be on a mountaintop in Chile, its headquarters will be in Tucson.“In Tucson, we currently have around 25 people working on LSST, and we’ll have up to 50 people by the end of the first year of activity.”Krabbendam said he expects the project office to remain in Tucson during the telescope’s decade of operation, beginning in 2022.
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has been selected by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to build the optics and support structure, designated as the L1-L2 Lens Assembly, for the camera on the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), which will sit atop the 8,800 ft. tall Cerro Pachon mountaintop in Chile. Ball Aerospace is teamed with Arizona Optical Systems (AOS) to build the lens assembly consisting of two large refractive lenses and the precision support structure to mount the lenses. AOS will machine and polish the lenses and perform optical testing. Ball Aerospace will design and integrate the mechanical assembly, support optical/mechanical integration and conduct testing at AOS along with overall management. Ball previously worked with AOS to build Ball's Universal Collimator Assembly, a large ground-based optical testing facility.
А вот как везли в 1917 году 2.5 метровое зеркало телескопа Хукера на горе Маунт-Вильсон(Эдвин Хаббл открыл с его помощью расширение Вселенной).