NEWS
First Glimpse of Fused LSST M2 Substrate at Corning
March 19, 2009
Quality Assurance Technician Brian Todd unveils the LSST secondary (M2) mirror substrate recently fused at Corning's Canton, NY, facility. After inspection and removal from the furnace, Corning will grind the 3.5-meter annulus and then return it to the oven for a controlled melt which helps define the final shape of the 100mm (3.9-inch) thick meniscus substrate. Delivery to the LSST Project is planned by the end of 2009. More ...
Event Calendar
2009 Jan 4-8— 213th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Long Beach, CA
2008 July 13—Call for US Scientists to Join LSST Science Collaborations
2008 Mar 29—High Fire Event in Tucson, Arizona.
2008 Jan 7-11—211th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society , Austin, TX
RECENT NEWS
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March 11, 2009
Corning to Supply Secondary Mirror Substrate for LSST. 
January 13, 2009
LSST Mirror Turn & Tilt
January 6, 2009
LSST had a special poster session at the 213th meeting of the American Astronomical Society
October 31, 2008
AURA Endorses LSST as Community Project
October 21, 2008
LSST's 8.4-meter mirror blank has been successfully lifted from the furnace hearth
October 2008
AURA and UCH Reach Innovative Agreement for LSST
September 2, 2008
Giant Furnace Opens to Reveal ‘Perfect’ LSST Mirror Blank
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In the Press
- 2009 July - National Geographic story on New Generation of Telescopes features LSST.
- 2009 March 11th - Corning to Supply Secondary Mirror Substrate for LSST.
- 2009 February - The design of the LSST is the focus of an article on the SPIE website.
- 2008 December - An article in the journal Nature discusses LSST and other observatories.
- 2008 May 13th - Discover Magazine has a detailed article on LSST.
- 2008 April 15th - Interactions.org Craig Hogan accepts position joint appointment at Fermilab, U. of Chicago.
- 2008 April 16th - Seed Magazine article on Potentially Hazardous Objects.
- 2008 March 18th - Arizona Star article on LSST High Fire Event. See also the Primary Mirror Construction gallery and the High Fire Event Page.
- 2008 March 17th - University of Arizona News on LSST Mirror Casting at UA mirror labs.
- 2008 January 3rd - PRESS RELEASE LSSTC-06. LSST Receives $30M from Charles Simonyi and Bill Gates.
News Archive
- 2007 November 8 - Hearing on Near-Earth Objects: Status of the Survey Program and Review of NASA's 2007 Report to Congress. Testimony of LSST Director J. Anthony Tyson.
- 2007 July 16 - The Keck Foundation donates $1.5 Million to support development of the LSST Focal Plane Array. The amount has been doubled to $3M thanks to a matching grant from the TABASGO Foundation.
- 2007 Jan 17 - See the KUAT story on LSST and Google on youtube.com.
- 2007 Jan 17 - Google and the LSST news story Pam White, Arizona Illustrated, KUAT.
- 2007 Jan 5 - PRESS RELEASE LSSTC-05. Google Joins the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Project.
- 2006 October 12- P5 recommends LSST. At the October HEPAP meeting in Washington DC the P5 committee recommended LSST for ground-based probes of Dark Energy.
- 2006 May 17 - PRESS RELEASE LSSTC-04 Site in Northern Chile Selected for Large Synoptic Survey Telescope.
- 2006 March 23 - Steering the Future of Computing, Nature News Feature.
- 2005 August 22 - PRESS RELEASE LSSTC -03 . The LSST receives $14.2 million National Science Foundation Design and Development Award
- 2005 September 1 - Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) receives $14.2 million National Science Foundation Design and Development Award .
- 2005 June 1 - The Google Astronomer on Space.com
- 2005 January 11 - PRESS RELEASE LSST-02 Steward Observatory Mirror Lab Awarded Contract for Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Mirror
- 2004 September 6 - IT to Help Avoid Astronomical Armageddon , Computerworld
- 2003 July 30 - Dark Matters: New Telescope to Seek Elusive Matter and Energy, Space.com
- 2003 July - LSST: The Dark Matter Telescope, Analog
- 2003 June 20 - The Warped Side of Dark Matter, Science Magazine
- 2003 April 24 - PRESS RELEASE LSSTC -01 New Corporation Organized to Develop Ambitious Survey Telescope.
- 2002 - Brace Yourself for the Data Deluge, Nature News Feature.