A fine guidance sensor (FGS) is an instrument on board a space telescope that provides high-precision pointing information as input to the telescope's...
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Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS) for the Hubble Space Telescope is a system of three instruments used for pointing the telescope in space, and also for astrometry...
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Fine Guidance Sensor and Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (FGS-NIRISS) is an instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) that combines...
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Alignment of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope's sensors Webb's Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS) Webb observing time is allocated through a General...
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of about 2% or better. HST's guidance system can also be used as a scientific instrument. Its three Fine Guidance Sensors (FGS) are primarily used to keep...
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Proxima Centauri and Barnard's Star using Hubble Space Telescope fine guidance sensor. 3: Detection limits for substellar companions". The Astronomical...
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"Confirmation of Errors in Hipparcos Parallaxes from Hubble Space Telescope Fine Guidance Sensor Astrometry of the Pleiades". Astronomical Journal. 129 (3): 1616–1624...
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and SNSB projects in the past. Recently, Canada contributed the Fine Guidance Sensor to NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. Additionally, Canadian universities...
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the Geological Society (F.G.S.) Fergusonite FG syndrome Fine guidance sensor Fine Guidance Sensor (HST), FGS for the Hubble Space Telescope Flagstaff railway...
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Spectrograph and the Wide Field Camera 3. The mission also replaced a Fine Guidance Sensor, six gyroscopes, and two battery unit modules to allow the telescope...
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hardware with upgrades and spares. Hubble received a refurbished Fine Guidance Sensor, an optical device used to provide pointing information for the telescope...
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temperature sensor Fuel level sensor Fuel pressure sensor Knock sensor Light sensor MAP sensor Mass airflow sensor Oil level sensor Oil pressure sensor Omniview...
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have been excluded or flagged as not meeting the requirements of Fine Guidance Sensors. This is the first full sky star catalog created specifically for...
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Benedict, G. F.; et al. "Astrometric Stability and Precision of Fine Guidance Sensor #3: The Parallax and Proper Motion of Proxima Centauri" (PDF). Proceedings...
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Proxima Centauri and Barnard's Star Using Hubble Space Telescope Fine Guidance Sensor 3: Detection Limits for sub-Stellar Companions". The Astronomical...
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Science Instrument Module which holds the science instruments and fine guidance sensor. The other two major sections of the JWST are the Integrated Science...
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Proxima Centauri and Barnard's Star Using Hubble Space Telescope Fine Guidance Sensor 3: Detection Limits for Substellar Companions". The Astronomical...
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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. She is the lead engineer for the Fine Guidance Sensor and Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (FGS-NIRISS) on...
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science payload which includes four science instruments and the fine guidance sensor. ISIM is the spacecraft chassis and instruments that take the light...
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S2CID 118803592. Parsons, S. B.; Franz, O. G.; Wassermann, L. H. (2005). "The Fine Guidance Sensor Orbit of the G4 Bright Giant HD 173764". Astronomical Journal. 129...
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Messaging Micro-Satellite (M3MSat) James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Fine Guidance Sensor and Near Infrared Imaging and Slitless Spectrograph Past projects...
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scale. The pixel scale of the James Webb Space Telescope component Fine Guidance Sensor and Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph is about 0.066...
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Benedict, G. F.; et al. "Astrometric Stability and Precision of Fine Guidance Sensor #3: The Parallax and Proper Motion of Proxima Centauri" (PDF). Proceedings...
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Spectrograph, and the Wide Field Camera 3. The mission also replaced a Fine Guidance Sensor, six new gyroscopes, and two battery unit modules, to allow the telescope...
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NIRSpec CAD view with main assemblies NIRSpec and the optical path Fine Guidance Sensor and Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph MIRI (Mid-Infrared...
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photo of the pillars is composed of 32 different images from four CCD sensors in the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 on board Hubble. The photograph...
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fine guidance sensors instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope. Canada's contribution is called FGS/NIRISS and is a combined Fine Guidance Sensor...
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Spectrograph and the Wide Field Camera 3. The mission replaced a Fine Guidance Sensor, six gyroscopes, and two battery unit modules. The mission included...
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resolution x-ray detectors. Coherence Coherence scanning interferometry Fine Guidance Sensor (HST) (HST FGS are interferometers) Holography Interferometric visibility...
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Bean, Jacob L.; Freedman, Wendy L. (2007). "Hubble Space Telescope Fine Guidance Sensor Parallaxes of Galactic Cepheid Variable Stars: Period-Luminosity...
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