Construction Begins on Large Synoptic Survey Telescope • Northwest Indiana Business Magazine

Construction Begins on Large Synoptic Survey Telescope

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WEST LAFAYETTE — Two Purdue University physicists are part of an international project to create a telescope that will survey more of the universe than all of the previous telescopes combined.

Professors Wei Cui and John Peterson along with their students and staff researchers have contributed to the design and testing of plans for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, or LSST, for which the National Science Foundation approved a construction budget not to exceed $473 million.

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