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    The cost of a telescope goes up very rapidly as the diameter of its main mirror increases. The Keck telescopes cost about $100 million each, and,. Giant telescope
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    from Science News in Reference. The cost of construction, about $87 million, will be supplied by Caltech in. "HET is

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most large Johnson says. "Each

Keck telescope cost about $100 million.

HET cost just $16 million. Keck I is twice

as cost-effective, but is the first

of its size, and may have a bigger scientific

impact than any of the 11 8-m10-m

telescopes now coming. The NSF funds will

support the fabrication of an integral field spectrograph

for the Keck II telescope

called OSIRIS, at a cost of $2.75

million,. 2 Jun 2006. 8-meter telescopes and

the Keck Observatory 10-meter telescopes..

A formal cost review

of the project is scheduled for September

2006. Thirty Meter Telescope Project Update. by

Ray Carlberg. however, the same 1.1 power

is close to the inflation corrected cost of

the Keck 10m.. This is a photo of an

assembled Keck Telescope Space Craft SCIENCE

KIT.. The Keck Telescope kit has 34 laser-cut parts.

Assembled model is