January 29, 2016 - Eleven members of the LSST Telescope and Site and Project Office have been in Madrid, Spain, this week participating in a successful Final Design Review of the Telescope Mount Assembly (TMA) with prime contractor Empresarios Agrupados (EA). The panel members evaluated EA’s design and sub-contractor efforts, reviewing design conformance and assessing risk to advancing the key components into the fabrication stage. Major assemblies such as the azimuth track assembly and the azimuth and elevation assembly showed the adequate maturity needed to allow moving forward with purchasing steel and starting fabrication. The TMA team will now begin preparation for the next milestone, which is the Manufacturing Readiness Review next August. Elements of the TMA will begin fabrication soon to support final completion and installation in Chile in 2018.