Title :
JWST-fine guidence sensor. Overview and status
Author_Institution :
Canadian Space Agency, St. Hubert, QC, Canada
Abstract :
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a 6.5 m diameter, deployable telescope that will be placed at 1.5 mln km fom Earth possibly in 2016. The Canadian contribution to the mission is the Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS). It also incorporates a flexible narrow spectral band imaging capability provided by the Tunable Filter Imager (TFI) instrument. The FGS program is currently in the assembly, integration, and test phase of the flight unit.
Keywords :
aerospace instrumentation; astronomical telescopes; image sensors; optical filters; JWST fine guidence sensor; James Webb space telescope; deployable telescope; fine guidance sensor; size 6.5 m; tunable filter imager instrument; Assembly; Detectors; Mirrors; Optical filters; Optical sensors; Telescopes;
Conference_Titel :
Information Photonics (IP), 2011 ICO International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Ottawa, ON
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-315-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICO-IP.2011.5953802
