TMT is going to be the world’s largest optical telescope, having a mirror of 30 metres in diameter and a height of 4-5 floors of a building. The work has been in progress for the last one decade, and will take another decade for completion. It will be located in a high-rise in North-East Pune.

The idea is conceived by Thoughtworks, a tech consultancy firm. Its team works closely with TMT project.

At present they focus on three components — the common software to operate the telescope consisting of communication network to give instructions to the telescope, the execution software to issue commands for interpretation and implementation by the operating system of the telescope and the data management system which processes all the data and images the telescope captures. It will take 3-4 years for Thoughtworks to complete the software engineering. The telescope is being built simultaneously.