The manufacturer is on schedule and on budget. The mounting will soon be ready for its first powered movement tests. Almost all the optics for the VSM are either in hand or being fabricated or ordered. For example, the 50-cm primary mirror of the VSM is being aspherized as of late January.
Mechanical activities are on schedule.
A focal plane guider system operating in a feedback loop with the agile secondary mirror significantly beats the required 40 Hz bandwidth. The software group has obtained first data from the integrated sunlight spectrometer CCD camera.