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Managing Integration and Verification Risks of the SKA Radio Telescope
Author(s) -
Lord Richard T.,
Gammon Donald
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.2020.00718.x
Subject(s) - schedule , radio telescope , telescope , systems engineering , computer science , engineering , telecommunications , astronomy , physics , operating system
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project is an international effort to build the world's largest radio telescope (SKAO 2020). A brief overview of the SKA project is provided, outlining some of the major challenges that such a project needs to manage. These challenges give rise to risk, which could lead to schedule delays, cost overruns and degraded performance of the final system. This paper describes how the integration and verification (I&V) of this radio telescope has been planned, and how the objective of mitigating risk has been an underlying motivation throughout this planning effort.