At a ceremony at ESO’s Vitacura offices in Santiago on 9 December 2013 the ESO Director General, Tim de Zeeuw, and senior representatives of the Chilean company ICAFAL Ingeniería y Construcción S.A., signed a contract for the construction of a road to the summit of Cerro Armazones, the levelling of the top of the mountain and additional civil works. The ceremony was also attended by representatives of the ESO project team.
At a ceremony at ESO’s Vitacura offices in Santiago on 9 December 2013
the ESO Director General, Tim de Zeeuw, and senior representatives of
the Chilean company ICAFAL Ingeniería y Construcción S.A., signed a
contract for the construction of a road to the summit of Cerro
Armazones, the levelling of the top of the mountain and additional civil
works. The ceremony was also attended by representatives of the ESO
project team.
Cerro Armazones will be the site of the 39-metre European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT). The 3000-metre peak is located twenty kilometres from ESO’s Paranal ...
At a ceremony at ESO’s Vitacura offices in Santiago on 9 December
2013 the ESO Director General, Tim de Zeeuw, and senior representatives
of the Chilean company ICAFAL Ingeniería y Construcción S.A.,
signed a contract for the construction of a road to the summit of Cerro
Armazones, the levelling of the top of the mountain and additional
civil works. The ceremony was also attended by representatives of the
ESO project team.
Cerro Armazones will be the site of the 39-metre European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT). The 3000-metre peak is located twenty kilometres from ESO’s Paranal Observatory, in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile.
The work specified in the contract will begin in March 2014 and is expected to take 16 months. It includes the laying and maintenance of a paved road, the construction of the summit platform and the construction of a service trench to the summit. These civil works will allow the required access to the summit for the future construction work on the giant telescope.
The start of telescope operations is planned for early in the next decade, when the E-ELT will begin to tackle the biggest astronomical challenges of our time. It will be the largest optical/near-infrared telescope in the world: “the world’s biggest eye on the sky”.
Credit:
ESO/ G. Lombardi
Cerro Armazones will be the site of the 39-metre European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT). The 3000-metre peak is located twenty kilometres from ESO’s Paranal ...
Signing of contract to build road and flatten summit for E-ELT
Cerro Armazones will be the site of the 39-metre European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT). The 3000-metre peak is located twenty kilometres from ESO’s Paranal Observatory, in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile.
The work specified in the contract will begin in March 2014 and is expected to take 16 months. It includes the laying and maintenance of a paved road, the construction of the summit platform and the construction of a service trench to the summit. These civil works will allow the required access to the summit for the future construction work on the giant telescope.
The start of telescope operations is planned for early in the next decade, when the E-ELT will begin to tackle the biggest astronomical challenges of our time. It will be the largest optical/near-infrared telescope in the world: “the world’s biggest eye on the sky”.
Credit:
ESO/ G. Lombardi
Cerro Armazones - site of the future E-ELT
View of Cerro Armazones in the Chilean desert, near ESO's Paranal
Observatory, site of the Very Large Telescope (VLT). Cerro Armazones
will be the site for the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT),
which, with its 39-metre diameter mirror, will be the world’s biggest
eye on the sky. The current steep dirt road to the summit can be clearly
seen.
Credit:
ESO/S. Brunier
Credit:
ESO/S. Brunier
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