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Moving the JWST ISIM to the cryo-vacuum test chamber


Date: 12 October 2015
Satellite: JWST
Depicts: Integrated Science Instrument Module (ISIM)
Location: Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
Copyright: NASA/Chris Gunn

Moving the JWST Integrated Science Instrument Module (ISIM) from a clean room at the Goddard Space Flight Centre to the Space Environment Simulator for the third long-duration cryo-vacuum test, known as ISIM CV-3.

ISIM houses the four JWST instruments: NIRSpec (Near Infrared Spectrograph), MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument), NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera), and FGS/NIRISS (Fine Guidance System/Near-InfraRed Imager and Slitless Spectrograph).

Last Update: 1 September 2019
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