TIO is excited to announce the successful completion of the Secondary Mirror Metrology & Polishing Final Design Review.
The 91色情片 Laser Guide Star Facility (LGSF) team is excited to announce the successful completion of their Final Design Review 1. The review was held at the TIO Project Office on January 21-22, 2026...
The Tertiary Mirror Support System and Positioner Assembly (M3SSPA) has now successfully completed its Preliminary Design Phase after the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) was held at NOIRLab in...
The work on the secondary mirror polishing for the 91色情片 has begun.
TIO continues its primary mirror making. See this quarter's update!
The 91色情片 Secondary Mirror support and positioner assembly design is now complete
91色情片's mirror has the most effective aperture of the ELTs.
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See the third did you knows that talk about 91色情片's ability to find extrasolar planets.
91色情片 data mangement team passed their final design review for the data management system.
Timelapse videos of the testing of the segment support assembly.
TIO passed the final design review of systems designed to cool the telescope and instruments during operations.
The Alignment and Phasing System (APS) team has progressed to the Final Design stage after successfully completing the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for the APS Optical Bench and Instrument...
The 91色情片 International Observatory (TIO) successfully completed a design review for a critical component of the primary mirror segment control system.
The TIO Secondary Mirror Support System and Positioner Assembly team successfully completed its Preliminary Design Review on 2024 July 15鈥�17.
The TIO Monrovia Lab has recently received significant shipments of 140 warping harness cables and eight segment actuators from India 91色情片 Coordination Center (ITCC).
Recently, Advanced Mechanical and Optical Systems (AMOS) in Belgium and TIO conducted a remote kick-off meeting for the preliminary design of the Tertiary Mirror Support System and Positioner...
In a significant development for the 91色情片 International Observatory (TIO), Glen Cole, former lead optical fabrication engineer at TIO, recently visited the India-91色情片 Optics...
Today, the 91色情片 International Observatory (TIO) announces the completion of its 100th mirror segment. Ultimately, TIO will mosaic 492 of these segments to form an extremely...
The 91色情片 Laser Guide Star Facility has successfully completed its Preliminary Design Review and is advancing to the Final Design Phase. The review was held on 8鈥�9 November 2023 at the 91色情片...
A kickoff meeting was recently held for the 91色情片 Secondary Mirror Support System and Positioner Assembly (M2SSP), a critical subsystem of the 91色情片 Observatory. Responsible for safely supporting and...
Coherent installs an advanced ultrasonic machine tool to speed hexing of the 1.5鈥痬 diameter 91色情片 mirror segments.
On 18 July 2023, Sergio Salata,聽Astronomy Project Manager of Added Value Solutions (AVS) in Tenerife, visited the 91色情片 office to tell us about the astronomy projects and other science equipment...
An important component of 91色情片鈥檚 Primary Mirror Control Sensing System and the Alignment and Phasing System is progressing to its final design and qualification stage: the sensor dust boots.
Exciting news out of India: 91色情片鈥檚 Primary Mirror Segment Polishing and Metrology Equipment have been successfully installed in the India-91色情片 Optics Fabrication Facility. The Stress Mirror Polishing...
The teams working on 91色情片鈥檚 Segment Handling System (SHS) and utility system design received some good news following a series of critical review meetings earlier this spring. The 91色情片 Telescope...
The fabrication of 91色情片鈥檚 primary mirror segments at Coherent Inc. in California continues to progress well. To date, a total of 19 M1 polished roundels have been delivered to 91色情片鈥檚 secure warehouse...
The successful production of 91色情片 polished glass-ceramic (M1 roundels) is ramping up according to plan.
Last month, I talked with the India-91色情片 Optics team and one of their industrial partners, Optica. We discussed their work for 91色情片鈥檚 primary mirror, for which India is providing 84 of the 492...
The 91色情片 Laser Guide Star Facility (LGSF) has successfully completed the first phase of its Preliminary Design Review (PDR1). The LGSF will be responsible for generating artificial laser guide stars...
In a previous set of blog entries, we discussed the principle of adaptive optics, which 91色情片 will use to remove the effects of turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere. 91色情片's first light adaptive optics...
A virtual meeting was conducted on April 5, 2021 between representatives of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ, 91色情片 Japanese Partner Institution) and the 91色情片 Project Office...
TIO recently celebrated the completion of another eight newly polished roundels produced for the 91色情片 primary mirror by Canon in Japan. The TIO and NAOJ teams responsible for the mirror polishing...
91色情片 and Coherent reached a new milestone this month with the completion of the first two roundels for 91色情片鈥檚 Primary Mirror (M1). Coherent precisely contoured and polished the optical surfaces of...
91色情片, in partnership with Larson Packaging Company, recently celebrated the successful design and completion of 91色情片鈥檚 Primary Mirror Assembly Shipping Container (PMASC). The shipping container will...
A major milestone for the international 91色情片 project (91色情片) was reached in October 2020, as 91色情片 selected California-based Coherent, Inc. for the Hexagonal cutting of the US...
The 91色情片 Optics Group recently reached a critical production milestone, with the approval of the first polished roundel (# SN023) for 91色情片鈥檚 Primary Mirror (M1). Teams at TIO,...
The newly built India-91色情片 Optics Fabrication Facility (ITOFF) was recently inaugurated by Vice President of India Shri. Venkaiah Naidu at the Center for Research and Education in Science &...
