Thermal and contamination control of the Mid-Infrared Instrument for JWST

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5497, Issue , 2004, Pages 39-50

  Heys, Samantha ^a   Swinyard, Bruce ^a   Ferlet, Marc ^a   Eccleston, Paul ^a   Edwards, Blair ^a   Larson, Melora ^b   Rodriguez, Jose ^b   Glazer, Stuart ^c   Thomson, Shaun ^c   Graziani, Larissa ^d  

^a RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Contamination; Cryogenics; James Webb Space Telescope; Mid infrared; Modelling; Thermal

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; CRYOGENICS; DATA TRANSFER; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INFRARED DEVICES; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; SURFACES; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMAL EFFECTS;

JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPES; MID-INFRARED; MODELING; THERMAL;

SPACE TELESCOPES;

EID: 19944429859     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551556     Document Type: Conference Paper

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