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The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) is a 10-meter segmented optical reflector telescope at the Sutherland Observing Station of the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) in South Africa, in operation since 2005. The primary mirror consists of 91 1-meter segments. The primary mirror is spherical, I'm guessing for much easier construction, and an optical system corrects for the resulting spherical aberration. Instruments:
SALT's overall design was based on the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET), but with some newer technology.