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Most of the instruments and interior technology have already been removed from Maunakea. The main thing left is the telescope's mirror, stretching 34 feet in diameter.
After 14 years of planning, Caltech is finally gearing up to remove its telescope from the Mauna Kea summit in the next couple of months, the first of five observatories earmarked for decommissioning to make way for the landmark Thirty Meter Telescope.