MEGARA News Megara Public news MEGARA successfully passed its Detailed Design Review 2014-12-18T23:00:00Z 2014-12-18T23:00:00Z On December 19th 2014, the MEGARA instrument passed its System Detailed/Critical Design Review (the instrument passed its Optics CDR on May 2013). All subsystems are now in Construction Phase. The Laboratory acceptance milestone is anticipated for May 2016. 2014-12-18T23:00:00Z MEGARA successfully passes its Optics Critical Design Review 2013-05-13T22:00:00Z 2013-05-13T22:00:00Z The MEGARA project has passed its Optics Critical Design Review (CRD). This is a critical step for the project as it allows the purchase of the blanks of the optical elements and the manufacture of the MEGARA spectrograph. 2013-05-13T22:00:00Z MEGARA sucessfully passes its Preliminary Design Review 2012-10-14T22:00:00Z 2012-10-14T22:00:00Z GRANTECAN has let the PI know that MEGARA has passed it Preliminary Design Review. Quoting the words from GRANTECAN's director, Dr. Pedro &Aacute;lvarez, &quot;<em>GRANTECAN considera completada satisfactoriamente la fase de Dise&ntilde;o Preliminar de MEGARA</em>&quot;, which also include a congrat .... 2012-10-14T22:00:00Z Premio Hans A. Bethe para Dra Silvia Torres y Dr. Manuel Peimbert 2012-04-01T22:00:00Z 2012-04-01T22:00:00Z Los astrof&iacute;sicos mexicanos Dra. Silvia Torres Castilleja y Dr. Manuel Peimbert Sierra, investigadores de IA-UNAM y compa&ntilde;eros en el equipo cient&iacute;fico de MEGARA, han recibido el Premio Hans A. Bethe 2012, en la reuni&oacute;n de la Sociedad Americana de F&iacute;sica (APS), el d& .... 2012-04-01T22:00:00Z