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PI Wins Substantial Hexapod Order from General Dynamics Daughter for ALMA Millimeter Radio Telescope

Physik Instrumente (PI) has been awarded a contract by Vertex Antenna Systems, a daughter of General Dynamics C4 Systems, to provide 25 six-axis hexapod alignment systems and motion controllers. These custom high-precision micropositioning systems will be employed to align the secondary reflectors in 25 twelve-meter telescopes - the North American portion of the Atacama Large Millimeter Array Project (ALMA) radio telescope.