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The project development plan breaks down into the following major phases with some sub-phases:

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Phase D will cover the manufacturing, system AIV/T and instrument AIT/V. This phase will end with the Preliminary Acceptance in Europe.
  4. 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:

  1. SRR: System Requirement Review - Review of the requirement flow down to system level. Internal instrument review lead by the PO.
  2. SAR: System Architecture Review - Review for instrument specification and system and sub-system level preliminary flow down
  3. ESO-PDR: Preliminary Design Review - Validation of the instrument preliminary design and have the systems requirements under configuration
  4. Funding Review Approval
  5. LLI-FDR: Long Lead Item Final Design Review
  6. ESO-FDR: Instrument level Final Design Review
  7. IRR: Integration Readiness Review - Assess the maturity of the instrument and all integration tools and procedure to be ready to go for integration.
  8. TRR: Test Readiness Review – verify that the instrument is fully integration and confirm that the Instrument is ready for the acceptance tests
  9. 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.
  10. PAC: Preliminary Acceptance Review in Chile – Verify the compliance of the instrument technical specifications on sky.

Key dates:

  1. Phase B1 Kick-Off Meeting 15/03/2023
  2. SRR 06/2024
  3. SAR 04/2025 (end of phase B1)
  4. ESO-PDR 2027-Q1 (end of phase B2)
  5. Funding Review Approval 2027-Q2
  6. LLI-FDR 2027-Q4
  7. ESO-FDR 2029-Q3 (end of phase C)
  8. IRR 2031-Q3
  9. TRR 2032-Q3
  10. PAE 2032-Q4 (end of phase D)
  11. PAC 2034-Q1 (end of phase E)

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