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MUST is collaborting with EPFL and industrial partners to develop a novel modular focal plane system [59]. This Zhao, et al. Sci. China-Phys. Mech. Astron.January (2023) V ol. 66 No. 1000000-7 modular design was originally proposed for the MegaMap- per project by [60] and is also being developed for the Spec- S5 project [61]. The MUST design vastly benefits from the open-source design and the model file6) released by [60]. The Trillium design is one of the candidates that is being tested for MUST. For MUST, as shown in the bottom-right panel of Fig- ure 1, a 1.2-m diameter focal plate will host 336 triangu- lar fiber positioner modules at the Cassegrain focus under the current preliminary design."}],"limit":50,"offset":0}