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    pointing is done by the JWST fine guidance mirror, obviating the need to physically move the whole mirror or bus. The spacecraft bus is on the Sun-facing...
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    and Spacecraft" (PDF). Satellite Bus Subsystems Archived 2012-09-05 at the Wayback Machine, NEC, accessed 25 August 2012. Satellite Glossary JWST Observatory:...
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    The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a space telescope designed to conduct infrared astronomy. Its high-resolution and high-sensitivity instruments...
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  • Mountain Learning publishing company JWST IV & V Simulation and Test (JIST), a software simulation for the Spacecraft bus (JWST) Gist (disambiguation) This disambiguation...
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    uneven, the spacecraft will tend to rotate, requiring its reactions wheels (located in the spacecraft bus) to correct and maintain JWST's orientation...
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    Parametric Assessment". AIAA. AIAA-2000-2919. Status of the JWST Sunshield and Spacecraft J. Arenberg, J. Flynn, A. Cohen, R. Lynch and J. Cooper Xapsos...
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    The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is an international 21st-century space observatory that was launched on 25 December 2021. It is intended to be the...
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    side, less heat needs to be removed. In this case the JWST cryocooler resides in the spacecraft bus and it has lines of coolant that run to the MIRI instrument...
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    the JWST are the Optical Telescope Element (OTE) (mirrors and their structure) and the Spacecraft Element (SE), which includes the spacecraft bus and...
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    so the spacecraft could not turn around or use its thrusters to slow down. Ariane 5 and JWST at the ELA-3 launch pad Ariane 5 containing JWST shortly...
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    sections of the JWST are the Integrated Science Instrument Module (ISIM) and the Spacecraft Element (SE), which includes the spacecraft bus and sunshield...
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    CHEOPS (redirect from CHEOPS (spacecraft))
    11 in × 4 ft 11 in) and a hexagonal base structure. The satellite bus of the CHEOPS spacecraft is based on the SEOSAT platform. A sunshield mounted on the platform...
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    The spacecraft was designed and built by TRW in Redondo Beach, Calif. Aqua is based on TRW's modular, standardized AB1200 common spacecraft bus. Warren...
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    Spectrograph (FGS-NIRISS) is an instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) that combines a Fine Guidance Sensor and a science instrument, a near-infrared...
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    solid-state recorder and payload data subsystem. ISRO provides the spacecraft bus, the S-band radar, the launch vehicle and associated launch services...
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    Spectrograph (NIRSpec) instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). In September 2022, the JWST discovered JADES-GS-z13-0, a galaxy with a redshift value...
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    four scientific instruments flown on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The JWST is the follow-on mission to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and is...
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    (Huntsville postal address), is the U.S. government's civilian rocketry and spacecraft propulsion research center. As the largest NASA center, MSFC's first mission...
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    targets for further characterization by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), as well as other large ground-based and space-based telescopes of the future...
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    (0.7–5 μm) spectroscopic observations by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) revealed the presence of significant amounts of ethane ice (C2H6) on the...
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  • Retrieved 28 February 2015. "Technical Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)". NASA-JWST. Archived from the original on 18 January 2014. Retrieved 24 January 2014...
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    events in the exploration of the Solar System by date of spacecraft launch. It includes: All spacecraft that have left Earth orbit for the purposes of Solar...
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  • Astronomers report considerable success of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) after its first year of operations. In what could be the first global scientific...
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    Wide Field Infrared Explorer (category Spacecraft launched in 1999)
    Explorer program Spitzer Space Telescope – Infrared space telescope (2003–2020) JWST – NASA/ESA/CSA space telescope launched in 2021 Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope...
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    last funded future U.S. space telescope besides James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The cancellation of GEMS may have jeopardized the Pegasus XL launcher....
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