Engineers Conduct Low Light Test On Webb Telescope Component

Engineers Conduct Low Light Test On Webb Telescope Component
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 05, 2014 - NASA engineers inspect a new piece of technology developed for the James Webb Space Telescope, the micro shutter array, with a low light test at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Developed at Goddard to allow Webb's Near Infrared Spectrograph to obtain spectra of more than 100 objects in the universe simultaneously, the micro shutter array uses thousands of tiny sh ... more

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