Status of the european elt

Abstract

The EELT project is in Phase B (detailed design), a 3-year, 57.2 M Euro activity that is scheduled to conclude in a Proposal for Construction by end 2009 or early 2010. The starting point for the current phase was a community process leading to the convergence of earlier concepts into a single European project. The telescope baseline is for a fully steerable 42 m, segmented primary, 5 mirror design, fully adaptive system with Nasmyth and Coudé foci. This paper reports on the status of the EELT Phase B.