1 / 5

SSSC/SITR Meeting NASA-ARC, September 28/29, 2009 Dietmar Lilienthal, DLR

SSSC/SITR Meeting NASA-ARC, September 28/29, 2009 Dietmar Lilienthal, DLR. Status of DSI contract. ● DSI-contract between DLR and University Stuttgart has been successful negotiated and finally signed end of April, 2009

giza
Download Presentation

SSSC/SITR Meeting NASA-ARC, September 28/29, 2009 Dietmar Lilienthal, DLR

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. SSSC/SITR Meeting NASA-ARC, September 28/29, 2009Dietmar Lilienthal, DLR

  2. Status of DSI contract ● DSI-contract between DLR and University Stuttgart has been successful negotiated and finally signed end of April, 2009 Contract has been extended for additional four years (up to end of 2012) ● Selection of Observatory Deputy Director Based on an announcement by University Stuttgart several candidates applied for the position as Observatory Deputy Director The US-German Search Committee (nominated by SSC/SSPC) recommended one of the candidates to NASA/DLR DLR followed the recommendation and encouraged the DSI to confirm the proposed candidate The selection process at DSI is currently still ongoing (but close to completion)

  3. Status of German Instruments & Teams (1) Due to the project delays the German Instruments GREAT and FIFI-LS were funded via additional DLR grants during transitory time from Jan 2008 – Dec 2009 (originally not foreseen in DLR`s medium-term funding budget) Goals: ensure availability of GREAT instrument team and Early Science deployment (scheduled for first half of 2009). Ditto for FIFI deployment, once anticipated for end of 09 GREAT Preship Review at MPIfR was successfully performed on Dec. 4/5, 2008; FIFI-LS PSR was scheduled for mid 09.

  4. Status of German Instruments & Teams (2) Beginning 09 a general project delay was announced, which required adjustments of schedule for science flights GREAT flights: postponed to fall 2010 – spring 2011 FIFI-LS flights: postponed to mid 2011 Consequences: funding period for both instruments had to be extended for additional two years (term of validity is now up to Dec 2011) Required additional funding comes from SOFIA budget reserves, resulting in reduced flexibility of DSI contributions Current concern due to recent schedule developments: Funding period might be not sufficient in particular for FIFI-LS. Hence additional money is absorbed by the instrument teams until first science data are acquired

  5. Forthcoming Events ● Visit of NASA-HQ at DLR scheduled for Oct 15, 2009 to discuss and complete open points of JSPP II, and finally sign the document ● SSC/SSPC Meeting scheduled for Dec 3/4, 2009 @ DSI in Stuttgart, Germany

More Related