RT Journal Article
T1 Project management for complex ground-based instruments: MEGARA plan
A1 García Vargas, María Luisa
A1 Pérez Calpena, Ana
A1 Gil De Paz, Armando
A1 Gallego Maestro, Jesús
A1 Carrasco, Esperanza
A1 Cedazo, Raquel
A1 Iglesias, Jorge
AB The project management of complex instruments for ground-based large telescopes is a challenge itself. A good management is a clue for project success in terms of performance, schedule and budget. Being on time has become a strict requirement for two reasons: to assure the arrival at the telescope due to the pressure on demanding new instrumentation for this first world-class telescopes and to not fall in over-costs. The budget and cash-flow is not always the expected one and has to be properly handled from different administrative departments at the funding centers worldwide distributed. The complexity of the organizations, the technological and scientific return to the Consortium partners and the participation in the project of all kind of professional centers working in astronomical instrumentation: universities, research centers, small and large private companies, workshops and providers, etc. make the project management strategy, and the tools and procedures tuned to the project needs, crucial for success. MEGARA (Multi-Espectrografo en GTC de Alta Resolucion para Astronomia) is a facility instrument of the 10.4m GTC (La Palma, Spain) working at optical wavelengths that provides both Integral-Field Unit (IFU) and Multi-Object Spectrograph (MOS) capabilities at resolutions in the range R=6,000-20,000. The project is an initiative led by Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) in collaboration with INAOE (Mexico), IAA-CSIC (Spain) and Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (Spain). MEGARA is being developed under contract with GRANTECAN.
PB SPIE-Int Soc Optical Engineering
SN 0277-786X
YR 2014
FD 2014
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/35086
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/35086
LA eng
NO © 2014 SPIE. Conference on Modeling, Systems Engineering, and Project Management for Astronomy (VI. 2014. Montreal, Canada).
DS Docta Complutense
RD 13 may 2025