Extremely Large Telescope Design Study.
The ELT design Study is a technologic development program carried out by institutes and companies in Europe, Israel, and Australia, coordinated by ESO (European Southern Observatory). It is approximately one third co-financed by of the VI Framework Program. The Wind Studies also count with a loan of the Science and Education Ministry inside the PROFIT program.
The study covers the development of technology and concepts needed for the design and eventual construction of an Extremely Large European Telescope. ITER participates in this project in the Work Package of the Wind Studies. It is in charge of the manufacturing of scale models of the selected enclosures installed with pressure measuring sensors and the accomplishment of tests in the ITER´s Aerodynamic Wind Tunnel, previous to those that will be carried out in a boundary layer wind tunnel.