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You wouldn\u2019t necessarily link Hammonds Plains, Nova Scotia with the far reaches of space, however, a high-skilled team of engineers and technicians from IMP Electronic Systems<\/a> designed and manufactured wire-harnesses for the Fine Guidance System as part of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).<\/p>\n IMP Electronic Systems was contracted to produce the wire harnesses in 2007, after being selected by Honeywell to manufacture, design, and test a range of qualification, engineering tests, and flight wiring harnesses. This project required IMP\u2019s technical team to work closely with the Honeywell team to turn the grand vision of the JWST into a reality.<\/p>\n Successfully launched in December 2021, the JWST has wowed the world with its vivid and never-before-seen photos of our universe. Among the telescope\u2019s many achievements is finding and photographing the oldest galaxy ever seen (13.5 billion years old), and capturing one of the first photos in decades of Neptune\u2019s rings.<\/p>\n The IMP Electronic Systems team was required to meet strict contamination control requirements, in a Class 7 clean room that was outfitted with additional control measures. \u00a0Extremely low operating temperatures (-243o <\/sup>C) were required for this project to mimic the vacuum of space, so a special cryogenic test chamber was built at Honeywell to test the manufactured qualification harnesses.<\/p>\n The JWST is a joint effort by NASA, the Canadian Space Agency, and the European Space Agency. NASA says the Webb Telescope will \u201cstudy every phase in the history of our Universe\u201d and, so far, the results have been most impressive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You wouldn\u2019t necessarily link Hammonds Plains, Nova Scotia with the far reaches of space, however, a high-skilled team of engineers and technicians from IMP Electronic Systems designed and manufactured wire-harnesses for the Fine Guidance System as part of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). IMP Electronic Systems was contracted to produce the wire harnesses in … Continue reading IMP Electronic Systems Contributions to James Webb Space Telescope<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[22,25,12,18,21,9,14,15,13,23,26,17,24,16,20,19],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-aerospace","tag-billion","tag-defence","tag-electronic","tag-electronic-systems","tag-imp","tag-james-webb","tag-james-webb-space-telescope","tag-jwst","tag-nasa","tag-neptune","tag-space","tag-space-agency","tag-telescope","tag-wire","tag-wire-harnesses"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impaerospaceanddefence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impaerospaceanddefence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impaerospaceanddefence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impaerospaceanddefence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impaerospaceanddefence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.impaerospaceanddefence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245,"href":"https:\/\/www.impaerospaceanddefence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impaerospaceanddefence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impaerospaceanddefence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impaerospaceanddefence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impaerospaceanddefence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}