Program Type

• AR - Archival Research
• CAL/SI - Calibration program, where SI is the science instrument
• DD - Director's Discretionary program
• ENG/SI - Engineering program where SI is the science instrument
• GO - General Observer program
• GTO/team - Guaranteed Time Observer program, where team indicates the GTO team affiliation
• NASA - Observing program conducted at the direction of NASA
• There are numerous other program types. Please contact your PC or CS if you have a question about your program type.

Contacts at the STScI

• Program Coordinator: The Program Coordinator (PC) is the primary technical point of contact during the development, implementation, planning and scheduling of a program. The PC and Contact Scientist (CS - see below) work together to prepare programs for flight execution with the PC concentrating on technical issues and questions.
• Contact Scientist: The Contact Scientist (CS) is the scientific contact during the development, implementation, planning, scheduling, and data reduction and analysis of a program. The CS and the Program Coordinator (PC - see above) work together to prepare programs for flight execution with the CS concentrating on scientific issues and questions. After execution of the observation, the CS and a Data Analyst (if necessary) provide support for the data calibration, reduction, and analysis.

Explanation of Program Status

A program normally goes through the following steps (in order) from submission to execution:

1. Pending Phase II Submission

You have not yet submitted your program to the STScI. If you are not sure how to do this, look here. If you have submitted your program and are getting this as your status, you should contact your Program Coordinator for assistance.

2. Implementation

Your Program Coordinator is preparing your visits for flight scheduling. The preparation may be complete for some visits, but at least one visit is still being worked. Please see the visit statuses for details and contact your Program Coordinator if you need more information.

3. Flight Ready

All of your visits have been implemented and are available as candidates for flight scheduling.

4. Scheduled

All of your visits have been placed on a finalized observing schedule. Please see the visit statuses for details and contact your Program Coordinator if you need more information.

5. Program has been Completed

Your program has been completed. For most programs, this means that all observations have been made. In some cases, technical or other problems may prevent the execution of certain observations. Such a program may be marked completed if the completion threshold has been met. Please contact your Program Coordinator if you have questions about this.

Other Statuses

Pending Update from Observer

At least one of the visits cannot be implemented until you supply updates or further information. Please see the visit statuses for details.

Program has been Withdrawn

Your program has been withdrawn from the observing cycle. Please contact your Program Coordinator if this is in error.

Skipped by JWST

All of the visits were on a finalized observing schedule transmitted to JWST, but JWST's onboard software skipped these visits. Contact your Program Coordinator for further information.

Failed

Problems were encountered during the execution of this proposal such that the data from some visits was severely degraded in quantity or quality. All visits in this proposal are either failed or withdrawn. Contact your Program Coordinator for further information.

Other

Please contact your Program Coordinator for an explanation of the state of your program.