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Lifting JWST's ISIM from the Space Environment Simulator at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center


Date: 16 October 2014
Satellite: JWST
Depicts: ISIM fitted with all four JWST instruments
Copyright: NASA/Chris Gunn

The Integrated Science Instrument Module (ISIM) houses the four instruments of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). After having spent 116 days in a space-like environment for testing, the ISIM, fitted with all four instruments, is being lifted by crane from the thermal vacuum chamber at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

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