For instance, when three years ago vacuumcoating equipment maker, ESTO-Vacuum, realized that in order to survive in the market it needed to expand, it sought capital from Rusnano.
And when its aluminium coating is replaced with silver in a year or two's time (a huge vacuum-chamber housed at the telescope's base will be used to deposit metallic vapour on to the mirror's reflecting surface), it will be able to see into the infra-red with equal clarity, opening up a much neglected area of astronomy.