GMT offers an unprecedented opportunity for Australian manufacturing and technology companies and institutions to participate in one of the world’s greatest optical telescope projects. Easily considered in the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) class, GMT will be one of the first of this next generation of optical telescopes emerging in response to scientific demands to see further and more clearly than ever before.

GMT must be seen as a complex multi-discipline large system to be constructed by an international team which will include Australian Industry. Experience gained on GMT will be well regarded for other similar projects.

LIKE NIFS… ONLY MUCH, MUCH BIGGER
The images show the ANU-built NIFS instrument in various stages of installation on the Gemini North 8m telescope in Hawaii. Each of GMT’s seven mirror elements is larger than the Gemini single mirror telescope. Such an instrument alone involves complex systems engineering and design, precision machining, specialised material technologies, vacuum engineering, Infra-Red electro optics, advanced electronic design, robust software systems, high cleanliness precision integration methods and rigorous Project Management, Product Assurance, Configuration Management as well as Cost and Risk Management and control.

Does this sound like your kind of fun?
If so, register your company as part of the GMT Industry cluster.

JOIN THE GMT INDUSTRY CLUSTER
If you think your organisation has the skills and capacity applicable to GMT, then download the registration document and register your company to ensure you are a part of the future of Astronomy in Australia and the world.
Contact details are given in the Registration Document.

INDUSTRY CLUSTER MEMBERS

Aerospace Concepts		Details
BAE Systems		Details
Bennett Precision Tooling		Details
Bohler Uddeholm Australia		Details
Centre Tooling		Details
EOS Space Systems		Details
Sinclair Knight Merz		Details
Vipac Engineers & Scientists Ltd		Details
University of Western Australia		Details