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NIRCam News
April 10, 2006
Previous editions are available in the archive.

Tuesday Telecon

NIRCam Calendar
Date Event Details
4/18/06 NIRCam I&T CDR Palo Alto, CA
4/11/06 FWA,PIL CDR Closure Palo Alto, CA
4/20/06 FSW CDR Palo Alto, CA
4/25-27/06 JWST Quarterly Noordwijk, Netherlands
5/22-23/06 NIRCam CDR Palo Alto, CA
6/22/06 NIRCam Monthly Palo Alto, CA
6/28-29/06 JWST SWG Montreal, Canada
7/20/06 NIRCam Monthly Palo Alto, CA
8/31/06 NIRCam Monthly Palo Alto, CA
10/25-26-/06 JWST SWG Boulder, CO
11/28-30/06 JWST Quarterly Redondo Beach, CA

Last Week's Accomplishments

NIRCam Activities for Week Ending 3/28/06

1) Received new CMLBs for SCA mounts from HyTek. Samples
will be sent shortly to GSFC for DPA.

2) Held a successful ICE CDR.

3) Held an internal instrument CDR kick-off meeting.

4) Sent first two revised SCA shipping containers to RSC
via NTS which performs a final cleaning step.

5) Developed an acceptable degassing procedure for epoxies
using in SCA cable potting.

Announcements

NIRCam FPA CDR charts are available on NGIN as JWST-RVW-006193.

NIRCam Monthly charts are in NGIN shared files in the NIRCam folder.

 

NIRCam Top 5
  Item Status Action Next Report
1 Requirements see below    
2 Detector Packaging waiting for flex cables    
3 Budget    

 

4 Optical Alignment Plan      
Document Status
DRD Title Status Due Comments
SE-04 Verification Plan Rejected 7/27/05  
IT-01 I&T Plan Rejected tbd  
Pending Changes
Mod Mod Descr CCR # RTC# Description Cost/No Status Due Comments ECD
tbd Wave 5     Wave 5 Changes yes RFP  

 

 
    312   ISIM Reqts Doc Rev A yes Complete   Adds reliability calcs  
    382   ISIM Reqts Doc Rev B   Complete      
    TBD   NIRCam Spec Rev D yes CM   ISIM RD Rev B, IRD Rev D  
    313   SOW Rev E (Test Changes) Yes Complete      
    339   MAR Rev B Yes Complete   Adds S/W QA  
    364   MICD EO# 1, 2, 3,4 Yes Complete      
    385   IRD Rev D Yes Complete      
    tbd   NIRCam ETU Specification   Loop 1      
tbd       Wave 6 Changes          
    tbd   IRD Rev E     11/30/05    
      030A FSW Telemetry Rate   Loop 2      
      034A Outgassing Rate   Loop 2      
      039 FAM Cover   Loop 1      
      036A Structural Interface Load   Loop 1      
      040 FWA Power-On Hold   Draft      
      041A Radiation   Loop 2      
      049A Handling Procedures   Loop 3      
      050A WFS&C #4   Loop 1      
      052A Moving Target   Loop 2      
      054A Stray Light #2   Loop 1      
      056 IRSU   Draft      
      057 Optical Alignment #2   Draft      
      059 Launch Loads   Loop 2      
      062 OTE Rev B Prescription   Loop 1      
      065 FOV Changes   Loop 1      
      067 Alignment Accomodation   Loop 1      
      ISIM-12 Image Motion          
      ISIM-15 Static WFE   Loop 3      
      ISIM-16 Reliability          
NIRCam Needs
Need Status ECD Assigned  
Resolve TBXs in NIRCam Reqts Documents See "Pending Changes" above. 7/31/05 TBR Lundquist  
NIRCam Drill template to Axsys delayed by funding runout at GSFC 3/15/06 Crow  
ASIC Ops Concept & interface documents TIM 12/2/2005   Dutta  
Spacewire ICD & Spec     Aguilar  
Loads from harness/thermal straps     Crow  
Info on ground strap, if any     McCloskey  
SIDU Upgrade for ASIC     Guy  

NIRCam TBD/TBR Progress & Plan