Some Native Hawaiians believe the project will desecrate sacred land and demonstrators blocked the access road to the construction site from July to December. “We are not prepared to move forward with construction on Maunakea anytime soon,” telescope spokesman Scott Ishikawa wrote in an email Monday. The 2 December decision is a major blow to the. Kim said Monday he had not received a reply from telescope representatives to his February request for a two-month extension of the moratorium. Hawaiis supreme court has ruled that the construction permit for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) on top of the mountain Mauna Kea is invalid. Hawaii County Mayor Harry Kim announced a two-month moratorium on construction in late December. But Japan is still committed to Hawaii as the preferred site for the telescope, Usuda said. The Thirty Meter Telescope is a planned extremely large telescope designed for visible light and near-infrared observation that will be built on Mauna Kea. Tomonori Usuda, telescope project manager for Japan, confirmed the Japanese government reduced funding for the project due to the situation on Mauna Kea. Coordinates: 194920N 1552830W The Mauna Kea Observatories ( MKO) are a group of independent astronomical research facilities and large telescope observatories that are located at the summit of Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii, United States. Japan supplies components for the telescope. Japan is not completely pulling out of participation in the Thirty Meter Telescope project on the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii Public Radio reported.Īn international consortium wants to build the telescope atop the state’s highest mountain on the Big Island. The tour lasts about 40 minutes and shows the telescope and the primary mirror re coating facilities. HONOLULU - Japan suspended its yearly funding for a giant telescope project in Hawaii, citing an ongoing stalemate over its construction. The 34-foot-diameter telescope mirror from the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory will be removed from Mauna Kea in pieces this summer, following complications with the original 4 million plan to. The National Optical Astronomy Observatories (NOAO) are planning to build two 8 m telescopes, one for Mauna Kea, Hawaii, the other for a site in Chile.
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