The Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) is one of the four instruments on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) scheduled for launch in 2018. NIRSpec has been manufactured and tested by an European industrial consortium led by Airbus Defence and Space and delivered to the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA in September 2013. Since then it has successfully been integrated into the JWST Integrated Science Instrument Module (ISIM) and is currently in ISIM Cryo-Vacuum Test#2. Since however two of its most important assemblies, the Focal Plane Assembly (FPA) and the Micro-Shutter Assembly (MSA) need to be replaced by new units we will present the status of the instrument, the status of its new flight assemblies in manufacturing and testing and give an outlook on the planned exchange activities and the following instrument re-verification.


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    Title :

    The NIRspec assembly integration and test status



    Conference:

    International Conference on Space Optics — ICSO 2014 ; 2014 ; Tenerife,Canary Islands,Spain


    Published in:

    Proc. SPIE ; 10563


    Publication date :

    2017-11-14





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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