Overview of the Status and Strangeness Capabilities of STAR
  STAR is a large acceptance spectrometer capable of precision measurements of a wide variety of strange particles. We discuss the STAR detector, its configuration during the first two years of RHIC operation, and its initial performance for Au+Au collisions. The expected performance for strangeness physics and initial data on strange particle reconstruction in Au+Au collisions are presented. 
P.G. Jones, P.M. Jacobs and the STAR Collaboration