The European Extremely Large Telescope

The E-ELT is a frontline scientific project that will allow scientists to address many of the most pressing unsolved questions about the Universe, and one of the greatest technological challenges of our time. ASDEA S.r.l. performed the seismic hazard study and studied the three-dimensional – horizontal and vertical – seismic isolation system protecting the telescope.

The revolutionary E-ELT, European Extremely Large Telescope, will be the world’s largest optical and near-infrared telescope, with a primary mirror 42 m in diameter: “the world’s biggest eye on the sky”.

With a cost of over €1 billion and operations scheduled to begin in 2026, the E-ELT will tackle the biggest scientific questions of modern observational astronomy.

Selected references:

• E-ELT: Europe’s extreme new telescope, Euronews
• European Extremely Large Telescope given go-ahead, BBC
• Chile, E-ELT: the world’s largest telescope, la Repubblica