India developing world’s largest telescope

India is playing a key role in the design and development of the world’s largest optical telescope—the Thirty Meter Telescope, or TMT, to be built at Mauna Kea in Hawaii. “Indian industries are making the telescope’s sensors, actuators and its mechanical support structure,” said A N Ramaprakash, associate programme director of TMT, India .

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