Southern African Large Telescope

The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) is a 10-meter segmented optical reflector telescope at the Sutherland Observing Station of the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) in South Africa, in operation since 2005. The primary mirror consists of 91 1-meter segments. The primary mirror is spherical, I'm guessing for much easier construction, and an optical system corrects for the resulting spherical aberration. Instruments:

• SALTICAM "SALT Imaging Camera".
• RSS "Robert Stobie spectrograph".
• HRS "High Resolution Spectrograph".
• BVIT "Berkeley Visible Image Tube" (photon counter recording timing information).
• NIR aka NIRWALS "Near Infrared Washburn Astronomical Laboratories Spectrograph" (near infrared integral field spectrograph).

SALT's overall design was based on the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET), but with some newer technology.