TMA Safety Review

An LSST team spent 5 days in Spain last month conducting a thorough safety review of the Telescope Mount Assembly (TMA) at the facility of vendor Asturfeito. LSST Safety Manager Chuck Gessner, Telescope and Site Technical Manager Shawn Callahan, Senior Systems Engineer Austin Roberts, and Lead Electrical Engineer Oliver Wiecha inspected the numerous safety features included in the TMA, and reviewed the procedures by which the group of vendors responsible for building the TMA (referred to as UTE) will verify that the hazard mitigations meet LSST requirements. The team determined that although there are still actions that must be completed by the vendors before the TMA ships to Chile (currently scheduled for November 2018), everything is on track to be finished in time. At the conclusion of the review, Asturfeito and designer Empresarios Agrupados (EA) were given approval to begin Factory Acceptance Testing for the TMA.