Contract ceremony for the ELT's M1 edge sensors

Contracts for the casting of the M2 and M3 mirrors of ESO's Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), their cells and sensors for the M1 segments were awarded at a ceremony at ESO's Garching Headquarters on 18 January 2017.

The picture shows representatives of teams involved in the contract for the edge sensors for the ELT's primary mirror, both from the FAMES consortium and ESO.