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Spain Bids €400 Million to Host Mega Telescope at Risk in US Budget Cuts
LA PALMA, CANARY ISLANDS, SPAIN, JUL 23 – Spain offers €400 million to host the Thirty Meter Telescope on La Palma as US funding cuts and local opposition in Hawaii threaten the project's future, officials said.
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Spain bids €400 million to host mega telescope at risk in US budget cuts
New Canary Islands home could save controversial Thirty Meter Telescope first proposed for Hawaii. New Canary Islands home could save controversial Thirty Meter Telescope first proposed for Hawaii.
The Ministry of Science and Universities is willing to make this investment so that the infrastructure will take place in La Palma after the refusal of the US to finance the project that was to be placed in the US archipelago
The Ministry of Science promotes the construction of the largest observatory in the northern hemisphere on the island of La Palma instead of Hawaii
An artistic impression of the TMT in La Palma – M3 Engineering via TMT International Observatory A scrambled river fishermen's gain, says a Spanish saying. And in this case it applies to the play of the Government of Spain, which offers up to 400 million euros to bring the Thirty-Metro Telescope (TMT) to the Canary Islands. Specifically to La Palma. The Thirty-Metro Telescope (TMT) has had a complicated story. First, because of the opposition of…
The Government of Spain has offered 400 million euros, through the Center for Technological Development and Innovation (CDTI), to the promoters of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) in an attempt to bring this great scientific infrastructure closer to La Palma. The offer comes after the Trump administration has decided to stop funding this scientific project last June.
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