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Giant Segmented Mirror Telescope

(GSMT)
(concept for an extremely large telescope)

The initials GSMT, for Giant Segmented Mirror Telescope, were used within an early (largely US) effort toward developing an extremely large telescope. The initiative eventually supported advancement of the Thirty Meter Telescope and Giant Magellan Telescope.


(concept,telescope,past,visible light,ELT,ground)
Further reading:
https://www.nap.edu/resource/aanm/web/tier3/gsmt.htm
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006IAUS..232..479M/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009astro2010P..11E/abstract

Referenced by pages:
California Extremely Large Telescope (CELT)
extremely large telescope (ELT)

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