Astrium satellites CEO Evert Dudok told BBC News: "With the qualification acceptance review done, it means the satellites are now in Esa's hands - although of course we will be supporting the launch preparation.
On Saturday, the EC's technical agent, the European Space Agency (Esa), formally took delivery of the first satellites from industry in the shape of a paper exercise known as a qualification acceptance review.
The thermostatic switch discrepancy was not detected by NASA, NR [North American Rockwell Corp.], or Beech [Beech Aircraft Corp.] in their review of documentation, nor did tests identify the incompatibility of the switches with the ground support equipment at KSC, since neither qualification nor acceptance testing required switch cycling under load as should have been done.
The book also focuses on item qualification, item acceptance, system testing, system evaluation, system feedback, and product models.
The verification process should consist of three classes of verification: item qualification, item acceptance, and system test and evaluation.
The product lines that I developed included everything from development of concept through qualification and acceptance of the final product by the customer in a highly regulated industry.
The programs, which will vary in hours of operation and student qualifications for acceptance, are the latest element of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's efforts to overhaul the city school system, long plagued by abysmal graduation figures.
The American refugee acceptance, qualification, and resettlement process is a tangle of the United Nations, at least three different agencies of the U.S. government, and multiple nongovernmental organizations.
This work presents details of this acceptance and qualification inspection and test protocol as well as performance characteristics of the DT-670-SD cryogenic temperature sensors when inspected and tested to this protocol.
The Arab League has offered acceptance, with qualifications, through its Saudi peace initiative.
The one-part format includes all requirements, whereas the content of a two-part format is partitioned into that which drives design and qualification, and that which drives acceptance.
