INS NEWS
HST Instruments: continue to work well and Hubble passed the milestone of its
1,000,000th image with a WFC3/IR Grism observation of HAT-P-7b.
On JWST the main piece of news is that TFI will be descoped. It will now feature
interferometric imaging through a non-redundant mask aperture, wide field grism
spectroscopy, single object grism spectroscopy for exoplanet transits, and broad band
imaging.
Staff changes:
Aparna Maybhate has taken on the role of RIAB Deputy.
Luigi Bedin, Sami Niemi and Brian Ferguson have all left STScI.
Keith Noll will leave in October.
Housing: Bloomberg/Muller moves are almost finished. Our thanks to all
concerned. Keswick lease is signed, expect take up occupancy in fall 2012.