A high bandwidth, gimbaled, fast steering mirror (FSM) assembly has been designed and tested at the Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company (LMSSC) Advanced Technology Center (ATC). The design requirements were to gimbal a 5 cm diameter mirror about its reflective surface, and provide 1 KHz tip/tilt/piston control while maintaining λ/900 flatness of the mirror. The simple, yet very compact and rugged device also has manual tip/tilt/piston alignment capability. The off-the-shelf Piezo translators (PZT) actuators enable reliable and repeatable closed loop control. The adopted solution achieves a good mass balance and gimbaled motion about the center of the mirror front surface. Special care was taken to insure the best positioning means with the mounted mirror assembly held kinematically in place. The manual adjusters have very good resolution, with the capability to be locked in place. All solutions were thoroughly modeled and analyzed. This paper covers the design, analysis, fabrication, assembly, and testing of this device. The FSM was designed for ground test only.
This paper describes the design of the compact, lightweight, and athermalized Pick Off Mirror and Mount. Structural and thermal analysis as well as actual prototype testing are also described.
This paper describes the design of the compact, lightweight, and athermalized Pick Off Mirror and Mount as well as similar mounts for other NIRCam fold mirrors, including the Focal Plane Assembly Fold Mirror Mount. Structural and thermal analysis as well as actual prototype testing is also described.
The Near Infrared Camera is the primary imaging instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope. This instrument operates in the wavelength range of 0.6 to 5 microns and at a temperature of 35K. Two mirror-image optical paths or modules are utilized to provide two adjacent fields of view for science observations and redundancy for the purpose of wavefront sensing. All optical components are supported and aligned by an Optical Bench Assembly consisting of two benches mounted back to back. Each optical bench is a closed back Beryllium structure optimized for mass and stiffness. The closed back structure is achieved by bonding two machined parts together at the midplane of the structure. Each bench half is an open back structure consisting of a facesheet with machined ribs optimized to provide stiffness and to support along primary load paths. The two benches are integrated with optical components separately and are subsequently joined by bolts and pins to form the Optical Bench Assembly. The assembly is then mounted to interface struts, which are used to mount the instrument within the Integrated Science Instrument Module for integration into the JWST observatory. The design of the Optical Bench Assembly is describing including trade studies and analysis results.
The Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is one of the four science instruments to be installed into the Integrated Science Instrument Module (ISIM) on JWST. I-220H beryllium was chosen as the optical bench material for NIRCam based on its high specific stiffness, relatively high thermal conductivity, low CTE at cryogenic temperatures, and overall thermal stability at cryogenic temperatures. Beryllium has cryogenic heritage, but development of a structural bonded joint that could survive cryogenic temperatures was required. This paper will describe the trade studies performed in which bonded, I-220H beryllium was selected.
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