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--- project_status [2025/02/07 20:04] – [SONG Project Status] jaklus
+++ project_status [2025/10/13 20:59] (current) – jasonj
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-===== SONG in New Mexico Status =====
+====== SONG in New Mexico Status ======
-(updated 7/10/2024)
+(updated 10/5/2025)
+The SONG spectrograph is assembled and awaiting first light at Apache Point Observatory.
 Major upcoming milestones:
-  * <del>Mount focal plane unit on port 2, test guiding with/without iodine cell (9/4/2024)</del>
-  * <del>Visit by F. Grundahl (Aug. 4-17)</del>
+  * Commissioning has begun, October 2025 --->
-  * Initial alignment and collimation of spectrograph
+  * FIRST LIGHT! October 2, 2025
-  * <del>Manufacture aluminum focal plane platform</del>
+  * Fiber installed in conduit. September 2025
-  * <del>Finalize focal plane unit design</del>
+  * Received optical fibers. July 2025
-  * Test image quality and dome seeing
-  * <del> PW1000 install, January 17/18, 2024</del>
-  * <del> Receive iodine cell </del>
-  * <del> Receive echelle grating </del>
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 [[https://docs.google.com/document/d/121YM588cNT02rtwVfPMpzanRou6X_87ysWjweu6i8ns/edit?usp=sharing|SONG NEW MEXICO BLOG]]
+===== SONG Newsletters =====
+  * March 2025, Vol. 0: {{ :docs:song-newsletter-vol-0.pdf |}}