A short featurette about how engineers at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland practice moving a mock up version of the James Webb Space Telescope onto the vibration facility, before moving the actual telescope for sine vibration tests. — NASA — The Webb Telescope Source: NASA (https://images.nasa.gov/) Licence: Public domain (work of the U.S. federal government, 17 U.S.C. §105) Audio is served by the publisher; Budi does not host or modify it.
0:08We're in the high bay of Building 29, and we have the vibration facility which is going to help us test the forces that we're going to see on the telescope during our launch environment. OTIS is the combination of the optical telescope element and the integrated science instrument module, which basically amounts to the science portion of the JWST mission. The telescope is currently being integrated in our SISTIF facility and we will be moving from the SISDIF facility into our vibration and acoustic facilities for testing. The mechanical engineering team is preparing by simulating some of the activities that we'll be doing using a mock-up of the telescope And by practicing these steps, the Mechanical Engineering Team is making sure that OTIS is protected from particles and that it's safeguarded during the test.
1:03So the way we're moving OTIS, is by surrounding the telescope and OTIS with a tent which is a four-story structure, I-beam structure that helps protect OTIS when it's outside the clean room like when we're doing the test out here and basically works like a shower cap. It protects the hair from getting wet. Here it protects Otis from particles in the environment. Gunner needs to conduct the sign vibration and acoustic tests for Otis primarily so we can demonstrate and verify that our mechanical design will withstand the loads that it will see when it's launched on the Ariane 5 rocket. We do these pre-tests as a strength qualifier, Workmanship, make sure everything's been put together and that our analysis is right
1:53and we don't send anything to launch that potentially will break during launch.
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