Australia and the Giant Magellan Telescope - Roger Franzen
Channel: ANU TV
Date: 29/07/2015

On the 3rd June 2015 the Giant Magellan Telescope Organisation announced that the GMT was beginning construction. The GMT is part of a new class of Extremely Large Telescopes which will push the boundaries of science and engineering. Australia has a 10% share of this world class instrument. On the 20th July the ANU hosted an event to explore Australia’s involvement in this exciting international science endeavour.

Roger is the GMT Technical Program Manager at the ANU. He presented the Advanced Instrumentation and Technology Centre, a facility with all the specialist equipment needed to support the design, integration and test of the GMTIFS instrument, as well as the test and evaluation of space instruments and satellites.