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PIA25435: Engineers Assemble Electronics Layer on Roman Coronagraph Instrument
 Mission:  Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope 
 Instrument:  Roman Coronagraph 
 Product Size:  8018 x 6010 pixels (w x h)
 Produced By:  JPL
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA25435.tif (136.7 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA25435.jpg (6.332 MB)

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Figure A

Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory – from left, Brandon Creager, Juan Gloria, Joshua Nachtigal, and Sonny Gutierrez – are shown assembling the electronics palette for the Coronagraph Instrument on NASA's Roman Space Telescope in December 2022.

One of two main sections of the instrument, this layer houses the instrument electronics that receive instructions from the Roman spacecraft and send back the Coronagraph Instrument's scientific data. The electronics also control the mechanical components on the optical bench and the instrument heaters.

Figure A shows a closeup of Creager and Gloria.

The Roman Coronagraph Instrument was designed and is being built at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which manages the instrument for the agency. Contributions were made by ESA (the European Space Agency), the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the French space agency Centre National d'Études Spatiales(CNES), and the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) in Germany. Caltech, in Pasadena, California, manages JPL for NASA.

For more information about the Roman telescope, visit: https://roman.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:
2022-12-21