Future Fibres is proud to announce that it has been awarded the contract for the construction of 26 structural carbon cables that will integrate the first working prototype of Large-Size Telescope (LST) of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA).
CTA is the next generation ground-based observatory for gamma-ray astronomy at very-high energies. The array will be using more than 100 telescopes spread between two sites in the northern and southern hemispheres. The first working prototype of LST is under construction in the northern hemisphere site, in the Canary Islands, Spain, on the site of the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos. Its installation is expected before the end of 2017.
“This is a significant step towards realizing CTA as the most advanced instrument on the planet for very high-energy gamma-ray astronomy and towards making CTA’s full power available to the science community early in the next decade,” said CTA Co-Spokesperson Rene Ong.
CTA is a global effort with more than 1,350 scientists and engineers from 210 institutes in 32 countries. The Large-Size Telescope project team alone, consists of more than 100 scientists from eight countries: Brazil, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Spain and Sweden.
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