With any luck, we'll be back on track for an RFO release later this week or early next.
Indications are that the material was well received.
Houston is assessing whether ISIS can fly on the 105 orbiter, rather than 107, which would mean an October 2000 launch from the Cape. Dr. Ed Weiler, the NASA Associate Administrator for Space Science, has said ISIS is the Office of Space Science's highest priority secondary payload for the year 2000. To exploit the scientific capabilities of a cooled 8 meter-class telescope in space, close coordination between instrument designers and detector suppliers is required today. To facilitate this relationship, the STScI will host a detector technology workshop in Baltimore on April 20-21. Mail Code 440, Bldg.