NASA's James Webb Space Telescope
Work on the ISIM Electronics Compartment
Here a tech is finishing up flight harnesses on the James Webb Space Telescope's Integrated Science Instrument Module (ISIM) Electronics Compartment (IEC) in the cleanroom at NASA Goddard.
The IEC houses all of the electronics responsible for control, data handling, and telemetry for the Webb telescope's scientific instruments.
The ISIM itself is one-of-a-kind living framework that provides electrical power, computing resources, cooling capability as well as extreme structural stability to the Webb telescope. It is a state-of-the-art bonded graphite-epoxy composite attached to the backside of Webb’s telescope structure.
The ISIM also contains the four science instruments that will record images and spectra of astronomical objects whose light will be collected by the giant optics of Webb’s telescope element.
The NASA website hosts a large number of images from the Soviet/Russian space agency, and other non-American space agencies. These are not necessarily in the public domain.
The SOHO (ESA & NASA) joint project implies that all materials created by its probe are copyrighted and require permission for commercial non-educational use. [2]
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