NEWS
LSST Mirror Lifted
October 21, 2008
The 8.4-meter mirror blank for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) has been successfully lifted from the furnace hearth at the Steward Observatory Mirror Lab, installed into a turning ring, and tilted to a vertical position. It is now ready for core cleanout, which will reduce its mass from 46,500 kg to 16,600 kg. The mirror is scheduled to be completed in January 2012, and will be the largest two-surface optical mirror ever made from a single substrate.
Image credit: Jeffrey S. Kingsley/UA Steward Observatory
Event Calendar
2009 Jan 4-8— 213th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Long Beach, CA
2008 July 13—Call for US Scientists to Join LSST Science Collaborations
2008 Mar 29—High Fire Event in Tucson, Arizona.
2008 Jan 7-11—211th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society , Austin, TX
RECENT NEWS
January 6, 2009
LSST will have a special poster session at the 213th meeting of the American Astronomical Society
October 31, 2008
AURA Endorses LSST as Community Project
September 2, 2008
Giant Furnace Opens to Reveal ‘Perfect’ LSST Mirror Blank
Click here to read the LSST newsletter, called the LSST E-News.
In the Press
- 2008 May 13th - Discover Magazine has a detailed article on LSST.
- 2008 April 15th - Interactions.org Craig Hogan accepts position joint appointment at Fermilab, U. of Chicago.
- 2008 April 16th - Seed Magazine article on Potentially Hazardous Objects.
- 2008 March 18th - Arizona Star article on LSST High Fire Event. See also the Primary Mirror Construction gallery and the High Fire Event Page.
- 2008 March 17th - University of Arizona News on LSST Mirror Casting at UA mirror labs.
- 2008 January 3rd - PRESS RELEASE LSSTC-06. LSST Receives $30M from Charles Simonyi and Bill Gates.
News Archive
- 2007 November 8 - Hearing on Near-Earth Objects: Status of the Survey Program and Review of NASA's 2007 Report to Congress. Testimony of LSST Director J. Anthony Tyson.
- 2007 July 16 - The Keck Foundation donates $1.5 Million to support development of the LSST Focal Plane Array. The amount has been doubled to $3M thanks to a matching grant from the TABASGO Foundation.
- 2007 Jan 17 - See the KUAT story on LSST and Google on youtube.com.
- 2007 Jan 17 - Google and the LSST news story Pam White, Arizona Illustrated, KUAT.
- 2007 Jan 5 - PRESS RELEASE LSSTC-05. Google Joins the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Project.
- 2006 October 12- P5 recommends LSST. At the October HEPAP meeting in Washington DC the P5 committee recommended LSST for ground-based probes of Dark Energy.
- 2006 May 17 - PRESS RELEASE LSSTC-04 Site in Northern Chile Selected for Large Synoptic Survey Telescope.
- 2006 March 23 - Steering the Future of Computing, Nature News Feature.
- 2005 August 22 - PRESS RELEASE LSSTC -03 . The LSST receives $14.2 million National Science Foundation Design and Development Award
- 2005 September 1 - Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) receives $14.2 million National Science Foundation Design and Development Award .
- 2005 June 1 - The Google Astronomer on Space.com
- 2005 January 11 - PRESS RELEASE LSST-02 Steward Observatory Mirror Lab Awarded Contract for Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Mirror
- 2004 September 6 - IT to Help Avoid Astronomical Armageddon , Computerworld
- 2003 July 30 - Dark Matters: New Telescope to Seek Elusive Matter and Energy, Space.com
- 2003 July - LSST: The Dark Matter Telescope, Analog
- 2003 June 20 - The Warped Side of Dark Matter, Science Magazine
- 2003 April 24 - PRESS RELEASE LSSTC -01 New Corporation Organized to Develop Ambitious Survey Telescope.
- 2002 - Brace Yourself for the Data Deluge, Nature News Feature.