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Frame supports astral research project
July 2nd 2009

A purpose designed Benco support and manipulator frame has been supplied by Brixworth Engineering Co to the UK Astronomy Technology Centre (UK ATC) at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh.

The equipment will be used during the production and integration of a prestigious new K-band multi-object spectrograph instrument (KMOS), designed for the very large telescope operated by the European Southern Observatory and located in Northern Chile. The instrument is approximately 2.1m diameter x 1.5m long, has an anticipated total mass of 2.5t with an out of balance load of 3000Nm.

A full rotation of the instrument can be accommodated by the Benco manipulator frame, which even when fully loaded has been designed to withstand an earthquake side loading of 1.344g (13.2m/s^2).

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