:: Mission background

MIRI is one of the four instruments (FGS, NIRCAM, Nirspec, Miri) consituting the payload of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

The JWST is a large, infrared-optimized space telescope scheduled for launch in August, 2011 . JWST is designed to study the earliest galaxies and some of the first stars formed after the Big Bang. These early objects have a high redshift from our vantage-point, meaning that the best observations for these objects are available in the infrared. JWST's instruments will be designed to work primarily in the infrared range of the electromagnetic spectrum.

More about the JWST:
- NASA JWST
- ESA JWST

Mission and Launch JWST

	Animation sunshield deployment Credit: Northrop Grumman Space Technology
	Animation mirror deployment Credit: Northrop Grumman Space Technology

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