![]() ![]() Of a state conservation district use permit for the controversial Thirty Meter Telescope.Ĭaltech is one of the partners proposing to build the $2.65 billion TMT, which remains on hold while the National Science Foundation conducts environmental studies and weighs the possibility of investing hundreds of millions of dollars in the project. The project proposed in Hawaii would cover the skies from the northern hemisphere, while the Giant Magellan Telescope project, based in Chile, would observe the universe from the southern hemisphere. ![]() The Caltech Submillimeter Observatory is the first of five Mauna Kea observatories earmarked for decommissioning as a condition The telescope mirror will be sent to an unnamed facility in Chile, while the rest of the telescope’s parts will be reused, recycled or sent to a scrapyard, Hastings said. will take down the observatory buildings and fully restore the site. Once the telescope is removed from the mountain, general contractor Goodfellow Bros. Hastings said it is unclear if the new process will take longer than originally anticipated. Hawaiians are fighting to preserve their culture and land. Astronomers want to build a telescope they say would change the way we know the universe. Telescope parts will be transported down the mountain in shipping containers.Ĭaltech said that while the new removal process will be riskier for the telescope, there will be less disruption to the surrounding community. Native Hawaiians Want To Halt A Massive Telescope Project. “Time is running out because if we don’t get the whole structure down and return (Mauna Kea) to its natural terrain by the beginning of winter, then we’re (doomed) again and we’ll have to wait months and months,” Hastings said.Ĭaltech will now disassemble the telescope into smaller parts, reversing the process used to assemble it in the 1980s, according to a news release. The new plan will not cause any road closures in Hilo as previously expected, according to a newsīarbara Hastings said Caltech was building a “cradle” for the telescope mirror to carry it down the 13,803-foot mountain in one piece but it could not be perfected within the allotted time. The 34-foot-diameter telescope mirror from the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory will be removed from Mauna Kea in pieces this summer, following complications with the original $4 million plan to remove it in one piece. ![]()
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