What are the policies and plans for observing with JWST?
The policies for JWST observers will be very similar to those of the other Great Observatories, with more than 80% of the observing time available to those submitting general observing (GO) proposals from the astronomical community. The current expectation is that GO programs will start in the first year of the mission with a Cycle 1 call for proposals nominally being issued one year before launch. Cycle 1 is expected to include a mix of small, medium and large GO programs. Guaranteed time observers will complete their programs in the first three years of the mission. No specific decision has been taken regarding Legacy, Treasury or Key programs but it is expected that the community will have the opportunity to comment on these ideas through a community workshop and/or a User Committee and that any initiative will be properly advertised and open to the astronomical community. NASA is planning for all JWST data to be public one year after the data is first available to the observer, sim
