Green: current estimates of dates of future events. |
Nov 2022 | Science observations start |
Aug 2022 | First light on WEAVE. Commissioning starts |
Mar 2021 | Red detector arrives at the WHT |
Dec 2020 | Blue detector arrives at the WHT |
Dec 2020 | Positioner arrives at the WHT |
Sep 2020 | First light on the Prime Focus Corrector |
Aug 2020 | Spectrograph arrives at the WHT |
Jun 2020 | Prime Focus Corrector arrives at the WHT |
Feb 2020 | LIFU completed |
Feb 2020 | MOS fibres installation on Plate A |
Mar 2019 | Rotator arrives at the WHT |
Jun 2018 | Operational Rehearsal 3 |
Jan 2018 | SPA meeting 6 |
Jan 2018 | WEAVE rotator FDR |
Jan 2018 | Prime Focus Corrector System top-level review |
Nov 2017 | Corrector assembly FDR |
Mar 2017 | OCS FDR |
Jan 2016 | First component (handling trolley) arrives at the WHT |
Mar 2015 | Conference: "Multi-Object Spectroscopy in the Next Decade: Big Questions, Large Surveys and Wide Fields" |
Apr 2014 | Blank for prime-focus corrector lens 1 is ordered |
Mar 2014 | Science CCDs are ordered |
Feb 2014 | First MOS fibre prototype |
Jan 2014 | Final spectrograph optical design |
Dec 2013 | GAIA launch |
Nov 2013 | Five of the six prime-focus corrector blanks are ordered |
Jul 2013 | Final prime-focus optical design |
Mar 2013 | Preliminary design completion |
Oct 2012 | Workshop: "La Palma and Calar Alto Observatories, Science in the Next Decade" |
Dec 2011 | Science case delivery |
Sep 2011 | Kick-off meeting |
Mar 2010 | Workshop: "Science with the William Herschel Telescope 2010-2020" |
Sep 2008 | Report by the European Telescope Strategic Review Committee of ASTRONET on "Europe's 2-4m Telescopes Over the Decade to 2020" |