CSO telescope could be gone by 2022
The Caltech Submillimeter Observatory could completely be removed from the summit of Maunakea as early as the end of next year.
Caltech representatives presented their decommissioning plans for the observatory at a Tuesday meeting of the University of Hawaii’s Maunakea Management Board.
The submillimeter observatory is the first of five summit telescopes slated to be decommissioned in exchange for the planned construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope. CSO operations in 2015, and had at one point been scheduled to be fully demolished by 2018.
