2nd-3rd Jul 2018 | WEAVE SPA meeting 7, Cagliari |
30th-31st Jan 2018 | WEAVE SPA meeting 6, IAC, Tenerife |
11th Jan 2018 | WEAVE WRS FDR, Bilbao |
30th Nov 2017 | WEAVE WCS FDR, Barcelona |
27th-1st Dec 2017 | Week of WEAVE 2017: Galactic Archaeology team meeting, Barcelona |
13th-27th Nov 2017 | WEAVE Engineering Stand-down 4 |
1st-3rd Nov 2017 | WEAVE All-Hands Meeting 2017: Groningen |
26th-28th Sep 2017 | WEAVE AIT meeting, Schiphol |
13th-14th Sep 2017 | WEAVE PRI system AIT workshop at RAL |
12th-13th Jul 2017 | WEAVE-QSQ team meeting, Marseille |
29th-30th June 2017 | WEAVE SPA team meeting 5, Cambridge |
13th-14th June 2017 | WEAVE SCIP team meeting, Alicante |
12th-19th June 2017 | WEAVE Engineering Stand-down 3 |
5th May 2017 | Fibre Positioner dFDR |
8th March 2017 | Observatory Control System Final Design Review |
19th-21st Nov 2016 | WEAVE All-Hands Meeting 2016, Cambridge |
13th December 2016 | IAC publishes tender to deliver the instrument rotator |
28th November 2016 | Week of WEAVE meeting at the Lorentz Center |
10th November 2016 | SPA meeting 4 |
9th November 2016 | FDR for the WEAVE Archive System (WAS) at Groningen |
4th October 2016 | WEAVE Operational Rehearsal 1 held at Groningen |
August 2016 | IAC tender to deliver an assembled PFC is published |
19th-20th July 2016 | The WHT flip ring was removed from the WHT and successfully reinstalled. This was carried out as a demonstration in preparation for the arrival of WEAVE. This was the first time in the history of the telescope that this ring had been separated from its support structure. Read more about this here. |
March 2016 | Final funding announcement for IAC (FEDER, 1.8M€) |
March 2016 | Fibre Retractors Complete |
March 2016 | PRI lens 4 ready for coating |
March 2016 | FTS delivered to IAC |
February 2016 | Positioner contract placed with Schunk |
January 2016 | PRI Trolleys delivered to WHT |
20th-21st Jan 2016 | January Galactic Archaeology Science Team Meeting |
November 2015 | PFC Blank 2 delivered to Kiwistar |
20th-21st Oct 2015 | Fibre System FDR |
19th-20th Oct 2015 | Science and Survey Strategy Review |
23rd-24th Sep 2015 | PRI Focus Translation System FDR |
September 2015 | PFC Blank 5 delivered to Kiwistar |
28th August 2015 | PRI Trolleys FDR |
8th June 2015 | MultiLateral Agreement is now fully signed by all agencies |
3rd June 2015 | Franche Comté provides funds for WEAVE fibres |
27th-29th May 2015 | WEAVE Science Planning meeting at Leiden |
15th May 2015 | Engineering grade CCD231-C6 delivered by e2V |
23rd April 2015 | PDR for Archive System |
23rd April 2015 | FDR Core and Advanced Processing System |
18th March 2015 | FDR for Spectrograph System |
22nd Janaury 2015 | FDR for Fibre Positioner System |
19th December 2014 | PFC Blank 1 delivered to Kiwistar |
2nd December 2014 | PFC Blank 3 delivered to Kiwistar |
3rd November 2014 | PFC Blank 4 delivered to Kiwistar |
22nd July 2014 | France's Conseil Scientifique Régional d'Île-de-France approves funds for WEAVE |
28th June 2014 | WEAVE well-represented at SPIE in Montreal |
26th June 2014 | Spain's Plan Nacional approves funds for WEAVE |
13th June 2014 | Kiwistar selected to polish PFC lenses |
10th June 2014 | PDR of the CPS/APS |
30th April 2014 | Blank for PFC lens 1 ordered |
29th April 2014 | Spain's FEDER committee approves funds for WEAVE |
11th April 2014 | Published tender for PFC lens polishing and coating |
30th March 2014 | Science CCDs ordered from e2v |
25th March 2014 | Full UK funding released by STFC |
25th March 2014 | WEAVE Board meeting in Rome. Attended by INAF Directors following the agreement to include Italy in the project. |
20th February 2014 | First MOS fibre prototype received |
12th February 2014 | Final design stage mid-term assessment |
31st January 2014 | Positioner PLC received |
30th January 2014 | Spectrograph optical final design review |
24th January 2014 | Prime focus corrector blank (B6) has been completed |
19th December 2013 | Successful Gaia launch |
15th November 2013 | Five of the six corrector blanks ordered |
7th November 2013 | STFC's Science Board recommends full funding for WEAVE |
6th September 2013 | STFC PPRP visiting panel at RAL Space |
9th July 2013 | Prime focus optical design FDR |
3rd-4th July 2013 | STFC PPRP meeting |
30th April 2013 | STFC PPRP funding proposal submitted |
22nd-23rd May 2013 | WEAVE Engineering meeting to close preliminary design stage (Stage Two) and initiate final design stage (Stage three) |
19th-20th March 2013 | WEAVE PDR completed |
21st February 2013 | NWO (Dutch Science Foundation) awards 960 k€ for WEAVE hardware to Prof.dr. S.C. Trager (WEAVE NL PI, Project Scientist, and Deputy PI) through its NWO-M programme. See this page for a short description of the project (in Dutch) |
18th February 2013 | Preliminary Design Review (PDR) documentation delivered to reviewers. PDR will be held in Madrid 19-20 March 2013 |
11th October 2012 | NWO (Dutch Science Foundation) Board of Exact Sciences approves 2M€ for staff costs connected to WEAVE design and construction in the period 2012-2015 |
26th-27th June 2012 | WEAVE project stage II Mid-Term Assessment meeting in Liverpool. Project progressing as desired |
17th-18th April 2012 | WEAVE Engineering meeting in Amsterdam. Conceptual designs discussed and moved towards preliminary designs |
2nd January 2012 | Start of WEAVE project stage II, in which preliminary designs are developed |
2012 | Funds received from Île-de-France for prototyping MOS fibres |
19th December 2011 | End of WEAVE project stage I. Final science cases delivered |
3rd October 2011 | Start of WEAVE project stage I, in which the user requirements will be captured. Final science cases and a concept-of-operations document will be delivered by 16 December |
22nd-23rd September 2011 | WEAVE kick-off meeting in Amsterdam. Engineering session on Thursday 22nd September. Science session on Friday 23rd September |
13th July 2011 | STFC's PPAN (Particle Physics, Astronomy and Nuclear Physics) science committee states that WEAVE is one of the highest priorities for UK investment in new ground-based astronomical instrumentation, and recommends that STFC provides support through the design phase |
14th April 2011 | Presentation about WEAVE made to STFC's PPAN (Particle Physics, Astronomy and Nuclear Physics) science committee by Gavin Dalton (RAL) |
31st January 2011 | 'Statement of interest' submitted to STFC. The partners are STFC, the University of Oxford, LJMU, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, ASTRON, Observatoire de Paris, Lund University and ING |
11th January 2011 | Piercarlo Bonifacio and team join the WEAVE consortium following the closure of the GYES project |
30th November 2010 | Conceptual designs of the new prime-focus corrector for the WHT, and of the spectrograph components, were presented at the WEAVE engineering meeting, Heathrow |
14th October 2010 | Proposed WHT MOS instrument named as WEAVE (WHT Enhanced Area Velocity Explorer) |
1st October 2010 | Letter of intent submitted to ESO for the construction of a MOS on the WHT |
26th April 2010 | "WHT MOS Science Group meeting", London |
22nd March 2010 | "Science with the William Herschel Telescopes 2010-2020" London workshop |