See inside the build of the Giant Magellan Telescope mount — and the only U.S. company with the equipment and expertise to machine it. We visited Ingersoll Machine Tools in Rockford, Illinois, to witness American manufacturing at its finest. To fabricate this 2,000-ton structure with micron-level precision, Ingersoll built the largest gantry-style five-axis mill in the United States. We show how Ingersoll engineered new capabilities to meet never-before-seen specs; fixturing and machining strategies for 50,000-lb components; thermal control, probing and laser metrology on a planetary scale; and what it means to manage a decades-long timeline.
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