Amazing minaturized 'SIDECAR' drives Webb telescope's signal

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The SIDECAR ASIC is a small half-dollar-sized microprocessor developed for use on the JWST. Also show is the SIDECAR ASIC in spaceflight package. Credit: Teledyne Imaging Systems
The SIDECAR ASIC is a small, half-dollar-sized microprocessor developed for use on the JWST. Also show is the SIDECAR ASIC in spaceflight package. Credit: Teledyne Imaging Systems

Many technologies have become so advanced that they've been miniaturized to take up less space and weigh less. That's what happened to detector controls and data conversion electronics on the James Webb Space Telescope being built by Northrop Grumman.


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