NASA Goddard Centrifuge test of James Webb Space Telescope's ISIM structure

Please note, this is a camera phone video - we'll have a high def one coming out soon.

This video shows the NASA Goddard High Capacity Centrifuge (HCC). It is doing a test spin with the James Webb Space Telescope's flight ISIM structure aboard. The ISIM structure will hold all the science instruments.

The HCC's top speed: 33 1/3 rpm (just like the record speed if anyone remembers that); it generates 30 G's at that speed.

ISIM test top speed: about 11 rpm for about 10 Gs (same as it will experience on the Ariane 5 rocket during launch)

The ISIM test in this video wasn't even 1 G. It was about 1/3 rpm. It was done to test the balance of the centrifuge.

Category:

Science & Technology

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• centrifuge
• goddard space flight center
• nasa
• goddard
• jwst
• webb telescope
• space
• astronomy
• IR
• infrared
• Hubble
• Hubble's successor
• James Webb Space Telescope
• ISIM
• instruments
• technology
• satellite

[kbent88]

oh that structure is in the SSDIF now, right?

[NASAWebbTelescope]

@kbent88 Yep!

[NASAWebbTelescope]

@resinatedhuman Well, no, that's not it - that was just a low-speed balance test. They will be doing high-speed ones. We'll have footage when they happen. :-)

[empirerakeback]

Wow I'd like to experience some G's.

[inapleswebdesign]

sick

[TheHuMoCa]

Damn I wish I could work for NASA some day, thats if there still is a space program by the time I graduate

[oisiaa]

I'd love to see that thing going full speed.

[PhyOSPhyOS]

Really nice.