Attendance:

Notes by:

• TeamX: this one is TeamX-Instrument. There is a second one in March, and also a 'Mission' one in March.
  • Our goals
    • are there any yet unidentified challenges?
    • give initial cost estimate? Our framework was ~$175M
    • Note: JPL insists on 30% cost margin; NASA guidelines are 25%.
  • Engineering Exercise
    • 3 hours/day, Dec. 19-21 total of 9 hours.
    • ~10 engineers (optics, mechanical, system engineering, cost, electronics, cooling, detectors)
  • Results
    • Awaiting final results by mid-January. All other comments are preliminary.
    • No major challenges / show stoppers identified; design is sound.
    • Cost is close to our framework under specific assumptions for the cooling.

• AAS Presentations (next week): one oral + two posters
  • Co-Author Policy: all EC + Science Group Leaders + Others (nominations + self nominations)
  • Rough (pre-first) Draft Oral in Special Session
  • Science Poster (Qi Wen, work in progress)
  • Optics and Noise (Karl Young, reasonably mature