arm having twice the resolution of the longer wavelength arm.

Design and manufacturing

The builders of NIRCam are the University of Arizona, company Lockheed Martin, and Teledyne Technologies, in cooperation with the U.S. Space agency, NASA. Lockheed Martin tested and assembled the device. Teledyne Technologies designed and manufactured the ten mercury-cadmium-telluride (HgCdTe) detector arrays. NIRCam was completed in July 2013 and it was

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