The Road To SCUBA-2
Timeline/Roadmap
This image shows a timeline detailing some of the important points on the road to SCUBA-2 and beyond.
Key Milestones
The table below outlines some of the important milestones in the SCUBA-2 project.
| Milestone | Date |
|---|---|
| Conceptual Design Review | October 1999 |
| Pixel Architecture Down Select | May 2000 |
| Start of NIST and UoE contracts | January 2001 |
| Array technology kick-off meetings | February 2001 |
| Systems PDR | October 2002 |
| Array technology CDR | November 2002 |
| Prototype array delivered | September 2004 |
| Commissioning grade arrays delivered | August 2006 |
| Delivery to telescope | March 2008 |
| First Light on telescope | August 2008 |
| On-Sky commissioning begins | October 2009 |
| Science Readiness Review | January 2010 |
| S2SRO begins | February 2010 |
| End of SRO and warm up | March 2010 |
| Array installation begins at JCMT | August 2010 |
| Re-commission instrument - test arrays | September 2010 |
| Re-commission instrument - on-sky | October 2010 |
| Earliest start of full science operations | November2010 |