Webb Telescope's Science Instrument Installation Time Lapse
Time Lapse video of the science instrument package installation into the Webb Telescope.
Time lapse video of two dozen engineers and technicians successfully installing the package of science instruments of the James Webb Space Telescope into the telescope structure. The package, known as the Integrated Science Instrument Module or ISIM, is the collection of cameras, spectrographs and fine guidance systems that help record the light collected by Webb’s giant golden mirror.
Inside the world’s largest clean room at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, the team crane-lifted the heavy science instrument package, lowered it into an enclosure on the back of the telescope, and secured it to the telescope.
The entire installation process took approximately 17 hours to complete.
For More Information
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
-
Producer
- Michael McClare (HTSI)
-
Videographer
- Michael McClare (HTSI)
-
Editor
- Michael McClare (HTSI)
-
Photographer
- Christopher Gunn (USRA)
-
Technical support
- Nasreen Alkhateeb (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.)
- Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
Release date
This page was originally published on Tuesday, June 7, 2016.
This page was last updated on Monday, January 6, 2025 at 1:31 AM EST.