The KMOS Consortium
KMOS was developed and built by a balanced consortium of UK and German
institutes in partnership with the European Southern Observatory.
Principal Investigators are Ray Sharples (University of Durham) and Ralf Bender
(Universitätssternwarte/Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik).
Institutes
In detail the participating institutes and their main responsibilities
are:
Milestones
Preliminary Design Review (PDR) |
May 2006 |
Final Design Review (FDR) |
July 2007 |
Test Readiness Review (TRR) |
December 2011 |
Preliminary Acceptance Europe (PAE) |
July 2012 |
First Light at the VLT |
November 2012 |
Science Verification 1 (SV1) |
June 2013 |
Science Verification 2 (SV2) |
September 2013 |
Preliminary Acceptance Chile (PAC) |
January 2015 |
Last modified: 2022-07-06 (Michael Wegner)
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