Webb Telescope's MIRI Instrument Replica Reaches Goddard

(NASA) - The next generation space telescope continues to come together at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., with the arrival of the "Mid Infrared Instrument."

A working replica of MIRI or Mid InfraRed Instrument ? the pioneering camera and spectrometer for the James Webb Space Telescope - has just arrived at NASA Goddard. It was shipped from the Science and Technology Facilities Council?s Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (STFC/RAL) in the United Kingdom.


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