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NASA to demonstrate new star-watching tech with thousands of shutters
by Lori Keesey, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center..... "
The Goddard-developed microshutter array technology has evolved since its initial development in the 1990s for the James Webb Space Telescope. Here are images of its various incarnations. A Next-Generation Microshutter Array will fly in space for the first time on October 27, 2019. Credit: NASA
NASA scientists plan to demonstrate a revolutionary technology for studying hundreds of stars and galaxies at the same time—a new capability originally created for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.
The technology, called the Next-Generation Microshutter Array (NGMSA), will fly for the first time on the Far-ultraviolet Off Rowland-circle Telescope for Imaging and Spectroscopy, or FORTIS, mission on October 27. The array includes 8,125 tiny shutters, each about the width of a human hair, that open and close as needed to focus on specific celestial objects. .... "
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