TMT Work to Resume Says Ige!

[Aaron S]

I'm intrigued by the Governor's mandate that 25% of all the Mauna Kea Telescopes need to be decommissioned by the time the TMT is operational in 2024.

This means three telescopes has been removed before now and then. The Caltech Sub millimeter Observatory is slated for closure in 2016. This means two more telescopes have to be removed within the next 9 years.

I believe the James Maxwell Clerk and United Kingdom Infra-red Telescopes (sorry, Tom) are the likely suspects. Both of these facilities were slated for decommissioning after the STFC withdrew funding. The University of Hawaii currently owns these telescopes.