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*1 VISTA: Project Status Alistair M McPherson , Andrew Born1, Will Sutherland2, Jim Emerson3, Bryan Little1, Paul Jeffers1, Malcolm Stewart1, John Murray1, Kim Ward4.
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Moscow / Barcelona / Wortham / Newport / London / Edinburgh / /

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VLT / Observatory Sciences Ltd. / Rutherford Appleton Laboratory / EIE / Raytheon / NTE / HP / UK 4 Rutherford Appleton Laboratory / Vertex / Seimans PLC / VISTA / done using HP-UX systems / /

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Germany / Italy / Chile / Russia / United Kingdom / Spain / /

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USD / /

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Business Partnership / /

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Coating Plant / Paranal Control Building / factory Integration / ESO’s Cerro Paranal Observatory / Factory Testing / Vertex RSI factory / Queen Mary University of London / Rutherford Appleton Laboratory / VISTA facility / Royal Observatory / Paranal Power Station / Moscow factory of LZOS / University of Durham / /

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simplex algorithm / final delivered sub-systems / detector preamp electronics box / higher level telescope control software / long handling tool / sub-systems / steel fabrication / software communicating / infrastructure software removes hardware / manufacturing phase / higher-level software control / telescope mount manufacturer / work package management / position-loop electronics / software developers / risk management / analysis software / basic computing architecture / axis control software / hardware devices / infrastructure software / active optics software / software uses inheritance techniques / manufacturing programme taking place / /

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Blackford Hill / Telescope Mount / /

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Linux / VxWorks / HP-UX / Microsoft Vista / /

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Focal Plane Assembly / University of Durham / Astronomy Unit / Institute for Astronomy Madingley Road Cambridge / M2 Unit / School of Mathematical Sciences / M2 Assembly / Joint Infrastructure Fund / University of London / VISTA Project Office / /

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Larry M. Stepp / Mathematical Sciences / /

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Queen / contractor / /

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Camera2 / CANbus terminals / M1 system / LCUs / CANbus / M1 / /

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Tcl / C++ / /

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Texas / /

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radiation / Linux / VxWorks / simplex algorithm / operating system / Gigabit Ethernet / /

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