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SUSI -- the Sydney University Stellar Interferometer -- currently operates with a maximum baseline of 160 m. A major upgrade which will see the sensitivity of the instrument increased by a factor of 50 is nearly complete, and first fringes have been obtained with the new red beam-combining system.
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William J. Tango, "Status of the SUSI program," Proc. SPIE 4838, Interferometry for Optical Astronomy II, (21 February 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.459975