How many of these 1m class and 0.7m class telescope have you been able to sell and install since first offering this lineup. Also how long does it take you to cast, coat, and polish a mirror of the aforementioned sizes? I can't imagine how much incredible scientific has been acquired thanks to these technological wonders, its going to be extremely exciting to see what kind of advancements you're going to achieve in the coming decade, hopefully this includes small scale adaptive optics (actual atmospheric turbulence correcting, not that crap some companies are trying to pass off as AO when it should really be called an Optical Backlash Reducer to amateur astronomers), small scale interferometry, larger class scopes (an awesome goal would to offer a 2.4m scope by 2030), and what I believe everyone who owns or wishes to own a professional scope like the ones you produce would like to see, and that is to find a way to drastically reduce the cost of these science capable beasts by exploiting a combination of the economics of scale and advanced automated manufacturing techniques. I hope to one day be able to first have my own array of large class telescopes with which I would use some to rent out to everyone from researchers, grad students, to the general public. And then with the income from the rental service I would hire a team of freshly graduated astronomy majors in addition to one or two experienced (20+ years in the field) principle investigators whom would lead groups of the entry level employees, and hopefully some free grad students to answering questions posed by myself, the P.I.s, and scientific community without being constrained and controlled by things such as government funding or the bureaucratic groups which control our Universities.
@pduffy421
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@movax20h
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I agree. The price improvements and performance improvements are amazing. This opens high quality astronomy to so many new people, especially with proper instrumentation. I hope one day I will buy 1.0-1.2m telescope like this for myself, and share with researchers, rent to university, and share some time for free with some high schools, when I am not using it :) You can even search for exoplanets with this thing! :) I don't know details but I would imagine PlaneWave in the year 2017 did maybe 8 per year, and now is making probably 15 PW1000 per year in 2019. But I am sure they might ramp it up, and do 30-35 per year. The design is finalized and a lot of parts can be processed in batches, and assembly can be pipelined to turn them pretty quickly. They have capacity to do that, and mostly are limited by man power probably. The price is amazing, but still CDK700 and other smaller scopes are the more popular ones, and considering that PlaneWave is really small company actually, it is hard to turn everything quickly. Maybe 40 people total, including design, engineering, mechanical, electrical, marketing, machining, assembly, shipping, installation. Growing company quickly in this market is a bit risky, as you need to balance where you spend profits, how to diversify product lines, support, how to protect your IP and designs internationally, how much to spend on refinements and new design, vs producing existing products and keeping all the tooling, etc.
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