AGC supplies the magnetron sputtering coater for producing the mirror of the world’s largest telescope
Through its newly created unit AGC Plasma Technology Solutions1, AGC Glass Europe has been awarded a contract by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) to supply the magnetron sputtering coating2 plant aimed at producing the mirror for the world’s largest optical telescope, the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT).
This telescope manufactured by ESO will be installed at Cerro Armazones (3,046 m) in the Atacama desert (Chilean Andes). It will be equipped with a gigantic 39-meter segmented primary mirror3 to collect the light from the cosmos and allow astronomers discover unexplored galaxies, study exoplanets and investigate other objects and phenomena across the universe.