Schedule

Near-future milestones

• 2018-12-20 - Primary mirror re-aluminization complete and back on telescope
• 2019-01-17 - Fiber View Camera (FVC) installation
• 2019-01-28 - Begin installation of spectrographs + cryostats at the Mayall Telescope
• 2019-02-11 - Start functional verification of two spectrographs at KPNO
• 2019-02-15 - Imaging Surveys DR8 release
• 2019-03-11 - Commissioning Instrument (CI) installed
• 2019-03-14 - Commissioning Instrument available to commissioning team
• 2019-04-24 - End of CI run (6 weeks long)
• 2019-07-15 - Imaging Surveys DR9 release
• 2019-08-23 - Focal plane + fiber installation
• 2019-09-03 - Commissioning start
• 2019-10-01 - Last spectrograph installed
• 2020-01-11 - Nominal start of Survey Validation

Activities at Kitt Peak updated from DESI-4550 on 11 Dec 2018.