STFC's Science Board recommends full funding for WEAVE
6th September 2013
STFC PPRP visiting panel at RAL Space
9th July 2013
Prime focus optical design FDR
3rd-4th July 2013
STFC PPRP meeting
30th April 2013
STFC PPRP funding proposal submitted
22nd-23rd May 2013
WEAVE Engineering meeting to close preliminary design stage (Stage Two) and initiate final design stage (Stage three)
19th-20th March 2013
WEAVE PDR completed
21st February 2013
NWO (Dutch Science Foundation) awards 960 k€ for WEAVE hardware to Prof.dr. S.C. Trager (WEAVE NL PI, Project Scientist, and Deputy PI) through its NWO-M programme. See this page for a short description of the project (in Dutch)
18th February 2013
Preliminary Design Review (PDR) documentation delivered to reviewers. PDR will be held in Madrid 19-20 March 2013
11th October 2012
NWO (Dutch Science Foundation) Board of Exact Sciences approves 2M€ for staff costs connected to WEAVE design and construction in the period 2012-2015
26th-27th June 2012
WEAVE project stage II Mid-Term Assessment meeting in Liverpool. Project progressing as desired
17th-18th April 2012
WEAVE Engineering meeting in Amsterdam. Conceptual designs discussed and moved towards preliminary designs
2nd January 2012
Start of WEAVE project stage II, in which preliminary designs are developed
2012
Funds received from Île-de-France for prototyping MOS fibres
19th December 2011
End of WEAVE project stage I. Final science cases delivered
3rd October 2011
Start of WEAVE project stage I, in which the user requirements will be captured. Final science cases and a concept-of-operations document will be delivered by 16 December
22nd-23rd September 2011
WEAVE kick-off meeting in Amsterdam. Engineering session on Thursday 22nd September. Science session on Friday 23rd September
13th July 2011
STFC's PPAN (Particle Physics, Astronomy and Nuclear Physics) science committee states that WEAVE is one of the highest priorities for UK investment in new ground-based astronomical instrumentation, and recommends that STFC provides support through the design phase
14th April 2011
Presentation about WEAVE made to STFC's PPAN (Particle Physics, Astronomy and Nuclear Physics) science committee by Gavin Dalton (RAL)
31st January 2011
'Statement of interest' submitted to STFC. The partners are STFC, the University of Oxford, LJMU, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, ASTRON, Observatoire de Paris, Lund University and ING
11th January 2011
Piercarlo Bonifacio and team join the WEAVE consortium following the closure of the GYES project
30th November 2010
Conceptual designs of the new prime-focus corrector for the WHT, and of the spectrograph components, were presented at the WEAVE engineering meeting, Heathrow
14th October 2010
Proposed WHT MOS instrument named as WEAVE (WHT Enhanced Area Velocity Explorer)
1st October 2010
Letter of intent submitted to ESO for the construction of a MOS on the WHT