The project development plan breaks down into the following major phases with some sub-phases:
- Phase B is aimed at flowing all specification down to modules and achieve a preliminary design maturity. This phase is separated into two:
- Phase B1: More concentrated in the flow down of requirement and architecture definition to sub- system level
- Phase B2: Preliminary design activities.
- Phase C is aimed at achieving the final design of the instrument up to component. It ends with the final design reviews to free the Manufacturing drawings definition.
- Phase D will cover the manufacturing, system AIV/T and instrument AIT/V. This phase will end with the Preliminary Acceptance in Europe.
- Phase E will cover the activities of packing, shipping and preliminary acceptance in Chile.
The key milestones or reviews of the project are the following:
- SRR: System Requirement Review - Review of the requirement flow down to system level. Internal instrument review lead by the PO.
- SAR: System Architecture Review - Review for instrument specification and system and sub-system level preliminary flow down
- ESO-PDR: Preliminary Design Review - Validation of the instrument preliminary design and have the systems requirements under configuration
- Funding Review Approval
- LLI-FDR: Long Lead Item Final Design Review
- ESO-FDR: Instrument level Final Design Review
- IRR: Integration Readiness Review - Assess the maturity of the instrument and all integration tools and procedure to be ready to go for integration.
- TRR: Test Readiness Review – verify that the instrument is fully integration and confirm that the Instrument is ready for the acceptance tests
- PAE: Preliminary Acceptance Review in Europe - Verify the compliance of the instrument to requirements and technical specifications. The Authorization to shipment to Chile will be granted with the success to this review.
- PAC: Preliminary Acceptance Review in Chile – Verify the compliance of the instrument technical specifications on sky.
Key dates:
- Phase B1 Kick-Off Meeting 15/03/2023
- SRR 06/2024
- SAR 04/2025 (end of phase B1)
- ESO-PDR 2027-Q1 (end of phase B2)
- Funding Review Approval 2027-Q2
- LLI-FDR 2027-Q4
- ESO-FDR 2029-Q3 (end of phase C)
- IRR 2031-Q3
- TRR 2032-Q3
- PAE 2032-Q4 (end of phase D)
- PAC 2034-Q1 (end of phase E)