The Commanding team at STScI is responsible for operating the cameras that take the incredible pictures on the Hubble Space Telescope. We're also developing the software to perform science operations onboard the James Webb Space Telescope.

• James Webb Space Telescope Ground to Flight Interface Design
  Dashevsky & Balzano, Proceedings of the IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana, 1-8 March (2008)


• JWST: Maximizing Efficiency and Minimizing Ground Systems
  Dashevsky & Balzano, Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Reducing the Costs of Spacecraft Ground Systems and Operations (RCSGSO), Moscow, Russia, 11-15 June (2007)


• HST publications query results

• "STIS Grating Scatter in the First Order Modes" (~140 KB)

  abstract | AAS conference in Rochester, NY 2000

• "HST's First Lunar Spectra" (~440 KB)

  abstract | DPS conference in Padova, Italy 1999

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