Webb image archive
Webb’s FGS/NIRISS Instrument
After performing an initial post-shipping inspection of the Fine Guidance Sensor/Near InfraRed Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (FGS/NIRISS) in a clean room at NASA's Goddard Spac...
- Date
- Dec 13, 2023
- Observatory
- James Webb Space Telescope
- Credit
- NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI
- Archive ID
- 4252
After performing an initial post-shipping inspection of the Fine Guidance Sensor/Near InfraRed Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (FGS/NIRISS) in a clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in 2012, engineers from COM DEV (the Canadian Space Agency's prime contractor for the James Webb Space Telescope), and from NASA, place a protective drape over the instrument, until work resumes on the next day. The drape is made out of a material called llumalloy, and it is for contamination protection.