The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) is a science operations center responsible for operating some of NASA's flagship observatories. Specifically, STScI conducts science and mission operations for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), science operations for the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), and will handle science operations for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. As a community-based science center, it is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) and manages the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST), which archives data from numerous space missions. Key activities include telescope science proposal selection, observation scheduling, flight operations, data processing, archiving, and science instrument calibration.
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The Roman Space Telescope involves NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, Caltech/IPAC in Pasadena, the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, and a science team from multiple research institutions.
Jennifer Lotz became director of the Space Telescope Science Institute in 2024.
Previous AAAS members from the Space Telescope Science Institute include Carol Christian, Kathryn Flanagan, Colin Norman, Massimo Stiavelli, Nancy Levenson, David Soderblom, Margaret Meixner, and Mario Livio.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science elected Dr. Jennifer Lotz, director of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, as an AAAS Fellow.
Jennifer Lotz is the director of the Space Telescope Science Institute.
Gagandeep Anand is a senior scientist on the Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys team at the Space Telescope Science Institute.
Gagandeep Anand joined the Space Telescope Science Institute in 2021.
The Space Telescope Science Institute operates the Hubble Space Telescope science operations center, the James Webb Space Telescope science and mission operations centers, and the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope science operations center.
Before joining the Space Telescope Science Institute, Gagandeep Anand earned both a master's degree and a PhD in astronomy from the University of Hawaii at Mānoa.
The Space Telescope Science Institute hosts the Barbara A. Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes.
The Space Telescope Science Institute is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy in Washington, DC.
The Space Telescope Science Institute is the data repository for the Hubble, Webb, Roman, Kepler, K2, and TESS missions.
The Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore conducts Hubble science operations for NASA and is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy.
The Space Telescope Science Institute has budgets $30 million annually for grants to astronomers using Hubble.
A 2016 Space Telescope Science Institute study estimated a 25% reduction in overall scientific productivity for Hubble when operating in single-gyro mode.
The Space Telescope Science Institute selected 253 proposals for 5,500 hours of prime time observations out of 1,931 submitted proposals for Cycle 3.
The Space Telescope Science Institute announced the selections for the next round of James Webb Space Telescope observations, called Cycle 3, set to begin in summer 2023.
Work on the James Webb Space Telescope Phase E – Operations and Sustainment contract will be performed at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, and at Northrop Grumman’s facility.
The integrated FGS/NIRISS unit was built and tested by Honeywell with assistance from scientists and engineers from the Canadian Space Agency, the Université de Montréal, NASA, and the Space Telescope Science Institute.
Mission Operations Center ground control at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore began deploying the second side panel of the mirror at 8:53 a.m. EST and the panel extended and latched into position at 1:17 p.m. EST.