These telescopes, inaugurated in 1993 and 1996, are both 394 inches wide, or 32.8 feet. University of California and Lawrence Berkeley Labs began designing in 1977
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The design and development of this telescope took more than 1,000 people from over 100 companies more than a decade to complete