Mechanical slit mask mechanism for the James Webb Space Telescope Spectrometer

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Sep 2003

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In: Proceedings of the 10th European Space Mechanisms and Tribology Symposium, 24-26 September 2003, San Sebastián, Spain. Compi

Computer Science

Performance

Actuators, Near Infrared Spectrographs, James Webb Space Telescope

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This paper presents the mechanical slit mask designed for the Near Infrared Spectrograph of the James Webb Space Telescope. This mechanism is designed to function at a cryogenic temperature of 30K, in vacuum. The reconfigurable mask allows to form 24 optical slits in a 137×137 mm2 field of view. The slit length is fixed (4.8 mm) and their width can range from 50 μm to 137 mm. The slit positioning accuracy is ±5 μm and the slit width accuracy is ±8 μm. The paper concentrates on the working principle of the mechanism which is based on an improved "inch-worm" stepping motion of 48 masking bars forming the optical curtain. Voice coil actuators are used to drive the various clutches and the principal mobile stage. Ratchets which engage in the teeth of a rack machined on the bars allow to cancel the accumulation of motion errors as steps succeed one another. The design makes significant use flexure structures. Cryogenic performance and life tests have been performed successfully on subassemblies of the mechanism.

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