The Giant Magellan Telescope is being developed by the GMTO Corporation, a nonprofit organization and international research consortium headquartered in Pasadena, California, with additional offices in Santiago, Chile. Its mission is to design, build, and operate a next-generation 30-meter-class telescope that will enable cutting-edge astronomical research and transform our understanding of the Universe. Currently under construction at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert — one of the world’s premier locations for observing the night sky — the Giant Magellan Telescope will rank among the most powerful ground-based observatories ever built. Once completed in the early 2030s, this extremely large telescope is expected to become the largest publicly and privately funded science project in history.