The lead engineer for the 6.5 m Secondary Support, Actuation, and Integration Team will be Amar Brar. This requires ventilating, but not cooling, of the primary mirror. About 2200 cubic feet per minute of filtered air will be required. Fred requested a detailed breakdown of what would be required. Polishing Cell Other than changes that may result from the BCV Mirror Support Study, the polishing cell and its mirror support system is complete.
Work continues on the control system.
Cell and Support Design work is scheduled to begin January 1995. The need for the corrector to work in the IR will be discussed at the retreat. Dan Fabricant will supply samples of each type of coating for durability testing. The calculated motions between the primary, secondaries and instrument mounting flange have been gathered together. The mirror support force study will be started shortly and will take about three months.