Gemini Observatory: Design and development of
Telescope Control System (TCS)
The client
The Gemini
Observatory is an international $180m
project, operating twin 8.1 metre reflecting telescopes, one sited in
Hawaii and the other in Chile, which together provide complete sky
coverage.
Background to our work:
Having worked on this project for several years
before closure of the Royal Greenwich Observatory and formation of
Observatory Sciences, three of our personnel continued the work from
Observatory Sciences, taking it through to delivery.
Our achievement
With overall responsibility for management of the
project, we designed and developed the software which controls the
telescopes. This included responsibility for the design and
implementation of the interfaces to many of the TCS subsystems
(described in separate project profile).
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