When you walk into the laboratory that houses NIST's newest coordinate measuring machine (CMM), you might be puzzled at first about how engineers got it into the room. At about 11 feet cubed (3.3 x ...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has accurately measured parts designed for the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope, the long-awaited successor to the Hubble Space Telescope.
This image shows three of the four James Webb Space Telescope Primary Mirror Backplane Support Structure fixtures on the NIST M48 Coordinate Measuring Machine. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...