All assemblies are identified and designed, with remaining work being in the area of some detailed design, such as connector pinouts and wiring lists. The electrical engineer has spent most of his time since the Restart Review working on cold motor qualification and characterization tests, which have been completed. 8.2 Electronics Design Status and Plans Electronics design is on schedule. None 8.4 Electronics Design Schedule Electronics design is on schedule. The next major milestone is completion of mechanism prototype testing.
Cost is within budget, and the tasks are adequately staffed with available personnel.
The Project Manager does not believe this will have an adverse effect on the project, as electronics is not on the Critical Path, and he believes he will be able to hire a replacement in time to avoid schedule slips. Electronics Fabrication No deliverable fabrication tasks are scheduled to begin until February 2000. The only fabrication that has been done to date is for motor qualification and characterization, and for mechanism prototype testing. With regard to the latter, a test rig has been assembled and demonstrated. Due to major changes in the mechanism control philosophy between the original instrument design and the current design, most of the prior work on software, at least at the detailed level, must be discarded.