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Rockwell Scientific to Provide IR Sensors for Telescope

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Rockwell Scientific Co. LLC of Thousand Oaks, Calif., has been awarded a contract from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., to provide infrared focal plane arrays for the James Webb Space Telescope near-infrared camera. Integral to the camera, the detector arrays will enable sensitive measurements that are important to the mission of the telescope, which is to determine the first light-emitting objects from the universe after the big bang. The camera, known as the NIRCam, also is designed to study star formations in the Milky Way galaxy and to discover and describe...Read full article

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    Published: February 2004
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    astronomy
    The scientific observation of celestial radiation that has reached the vicinity of Earth, and the interpretation of these observations to determine the characteristics of the extraterrestrial bodies and phenomena that have emitted the radiation.
    near-infrared camera
    A near-infrared (NIR) camera is an imaging device designed to capture images in the near-infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum. The near-infrared spectrum typically extends from about 700 nanometers (nm) to 2500 nm, just beyond the range of visible light. Near-infrared cameras are equipped with sensors that are sensitive to light within this wavelength range, allowing them to detect and record near-infrared radiation. near-infrared camera suppliers → Near-infrared...
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