TMA Safety Review

An LSST team spent 5 days in Spain this month, conducting a thorough safety review of the Telescope Mount Assembly (TMA), at vendor Asturfeito. LSST Safety Manager Chuck Gessner, Telescope and Site Technical Manager Shawn Callahan, Senior Systems Engineer Austin Roberts, and Lead Electrical Engineer Oliver Wiecha inspected the numerous safety features included in the structure of the TMA. Not yet under computer control, the TMA is moved manually in this video.

Credit:
LSST Project/NSF/AURA

About the Video

Id:rubin-tma-moving
Release date:April 11, 2018
Duration:01 m 31 s
Frame rate:29.97

About the Object

Name:Asturfeito, S.A., Spain
Category:Vera C. Rubin Observatory

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