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April 11, 2024
The entire decommissioning process for Caltech Submillimeter Observatory is expected to be completed by 2024.
April 11, 2024
Work to decommission a pair of Maunakea telescopes will resume this month.
December 22, 2023
The Caltech Submillimeter Observatory came online in 1987 and was used by scientists at Caltech and other institutions, including almost 200 student and postdoctoral researchers.
May 9, 2023
A new Webb Space Telescope image of the bright, nearby star Fomalhaut reveals its planetary system with details never seen before
April 19, 2023
The Hawaiʻi Board of Land and Natural Resources approved the plan submitted by the university’s Center for Maunakea Stewardship for the decommissioning of the UH Hilo Hōkū Kea Observatory.
January 21, 2023
The deconstruction includes the removal and transport of the telescope, physical deconstruction of the building housing the telescope and the restoration of the site.
February 14, 2022
The decommissioning of the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory on UH-managed lands on Maunakea will be completed by the end of 2022.
June 5, 2021
“ CMS Executive Director Greg Chun. “The privilege of extending the university’s educational mission through astronomy on Maunakea comes with a deeply felt kuleana and decommissioning is a critical expression of that.” CSO and UH Hilo’s Hōkū Keʻa teaching telescope are the first two observatories to undertake the decommissioning process on UH-managed Maunakea lands. The decommissioning of Hōkū Keʻa is anticipated to be completed in mid-to-late 2023. The CSO deconstruction an...