The XRT-Station project has taken some important steps forward over the last few weeks. The Team leadership have been taking this recent progress as a chance step back and review the progress of the project.
Back in November last year we composed a plan for the project. By May we were hoping to have secured a site, sent out two press releases, produced our outreach material and procured most of our components and funding. In reality we have achieved about 50% of these objectives however securing the site means we can now get back on schedule. We believe we are on target to hit our completion date of the end of August.
The work of our team over the last few months now mean we have a much clearer view of the tasks ahead of us. To this extent, we present a provisional schedule for the remainder of the project:
- Sign MoU with UKSEDS – May 5th – XRT
- Procurement (Stage 1 – Technical components 1, 3D printing, Banners) – May 10th – XRT
- Sign MoU with Caradon – May 17th – Caradon
- Press Release 2 – May 17th – XRT
- Clearing land – May 31st – Caradon
- Security – May 31st – Cardon
- Procurement (Stage 2 – Fencing, Security, Structural) – May 31st – XRT
- Funding (Stage two) – May/June – XRT
- Outreach (BigBang) – June – XRT
- Procurement (Stage three – Caravan, Wiring, Technical components 2) – July – XRT/Caradon
- Operations plan – July – XRT
- Filming crew – August – XRT/XTV
- Procurement (Stage 4 – Dish, Misc) – August – XRT/Caradon
- Build – Late August
- Operations/Calibrations
