Product category: Sensors and Data Acquisition
News Release from: National Instruments | Subject: LabView FPGA
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 03 August 2007
Testing readies space telescope for
launch
The James Webb Space Telescope has passed a crucial milestone toward its 2013 launch with the help of National Instruments LabView FPGA.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), NASA's next-generation successor to the Hubble, has passed a crucial milestone toward its 2013 launch with the help of National Instruments LabView FPGA An important element of the JWST is the Near-Infra-Red Spectrograph (NIRSpec), which is equipped with more than 250,000 microshutters designed to observe thousands of distant galaxies to better understand the origins of the universe
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 28 Feb 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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