The Giant Magellan Telescope and Rockford, Ill.-based Ingersoll Machine Tools Inc., part of the Italian Camozzi Group, announced the start of manufacturing and assembly of the largest telescope mount built in the United States. The 22-meter-diameter concrete pier was engineered to protect the telescope during seismic events in the Chilean Atacama Desert. The 39-meter-tall precision moving structure was developed in…
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