A bank of 4 compressors, located in the remote facility utility building, is used to provide the refrigerant supply to most of the subsystems located on the telescope structure.
First of 492 Primary Mirror Segment Support active mechanisms and sensors assemblies for the telescope at TMT Laboratory. TMT Opto-Mechanical and Quality Assurance engineers from India and North America, from left: Nikhil Naik, Alan Tubb, Varun Saraswat and Bryan Smith
Group picture of TMT Science Forum 2017, held at the campus of Infosys in Mysore, India, November 2017.
TMT Science community and International Science Development Teams (ISDTs) brainstorming on instrument concepts beyond TMT first-light. Dr. Srianand Raghunathan and Dr. Christophe Dumas -Science Organizing Committee chair and the Forum Local Organizing Committee.
Dr. Warren Skidmore and colleagues from TMT International Science Development Teams (ISDTs) receiving the award.
Dr. Warren Skidmore, TMT System Scientist, revealing the Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics (RAA) award during TMT Science Forum -Nov. 7-9, 2017.
From left: Large granite slab is mined, Granite slab is coarse cut, Transportation of granite to Nanjing, Granite Slab has been ground down to a 5m rotational table, Rear Surface of Granite Table Polished, Large Rotational Gear under Fabrication, Rotational Table Base Structure & Centre Connection, Base being lowered into pit, Base in position.
Setup for NIAOT Continuous Polishing of TMT Segments
Participants of TMT Common Software development in ThoughtWorks office in Pune, India. - January 2018 -
Members of TMT Common Software team gathering in front of ThoughtWorks headquarters in Pune, India. - January 09, 2018
First parts for the USA Segment Support Assemblies, and some of the TMT Project Office team members involved in this program (left to right): Robert Anderson (Lead Quality Assurance Engineer and Work Package Manager), Bryan Smith (Quality Assurance and Testing Engineer), Fred Kamphues (Senior Opto-mechanical Engineer), Pratheep Eamranond (Lead Contracts Specialist), Christina Wong (Associate Contracts Specialist) and Alan Tubb (Associate Opto-mechanical Engineer).
TMT Quality Assurance and Safety engineers Bryan Smith and Robert Anderson, accompanied by IIA Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Vineeth Valsan and IIA Optics Engineer Manoj visiting the construction of the new optics facility dedicated to TMT primary mirror segment production.
