The two VM test campaigns show that we basically have a working instrument and test facility.
- End-end functioning
- Blanket performance
- A point source looks like a point source
- The cal source illuminates the spectrometer detectors
- Imager and spectrometer are both in focus (or not)
- The wheels go round, the CCC moves, the sensors can be read out
- Throughput is what we expected to see
- We can get dark
- Checkout data chain
- Annealing of detectors, detector modes, pom heater works
- Enable on-going rationalisation and refinement of test plans
- DHAS used to reduce & analyse data, including cubes
- There is a lot of test data still to reduce and analyze
- There are 9 months in which to correct the MTS