Power On! Webb Telescope's Instruments Are On, and University of Arizona's NIRCam Will Soon See Starlight
February 01, 2022
February 01, 2022
TUCSON, Arizona, Feb. 1 (TNSOps) -- The University of Arizona issued the following news release:
Since the arrival of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope at its orbital destination Jan. 24, the mission operations team has successfully powered on all of the telescope's science instruments, including its primary camera, the Near Infrared Camera, or NIRCam, built by a team of researchers and engineers led by University of Arizona astronomer Marcia Rieke.
Turning th . . .
Since the arrival of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope at its orbital destination Jan. 24, the mission operations team has successfully powered on all of the telescope's science instruments, including its primary camera, the Near Infrared Camera, or NIRCam, built by a team of researchers and engineers led by University of Arizona astronomer Marcia Rieke.
Turning th . . .