Albrecht Poglitsch
Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik
Lessons Learned from Making FIFI-LS a Reality
Albrecht Poglitsch (for the FIFI-LS Team) Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik
Building an instrument for an airborne observatory still under development and with changing boundary conditions has been a challenge in many ways, both, technically and programatically, some of them expected and some of them rather unexpected. Since this effort took place in parallel with the Herschel/PACS project, we can compare how challenges differ between an autonomous space observatory and a crewed airborne observatory and where the strengths and weaknesses of either approach lie. One important aspect is also how the two projects mutually benefitted from, or even enabled, each other. To what extent the
