Yes. For more on this context, see: http://www.nature.com/news/us-struggles-to-offload-telescopes-1.14599 http://www.nature.com/news/us-struggles-to-offload-t

Yes. For more on this context, see: http://www.nature.com/news/us-struggles-to-offload-telescopes-1.14599 http://www.nature.com/news/us-struggles-to-offload-telescope... In order to bring new telescopes like LSST online, something has to be cut. NSF has tried to offload these older telescopes to consortia of universities who can still use them.