NIRCam is the Near InfraRed CAMera for the James Webb Space Telescope [2] (JWST) which launched on December 25, 2021. JWST is an infrared-optimized 6.5-m cryogenic telescope that will have unprecedented sensitivity in the near and mid-infrared ( 1 - 28.5 microns). The NIRCam has a field of view of 2.2 X 2.2 arcmin in each of two modules and high angular resolution (0.07 arcsec at 2 microns). It covers a wavelength range of 0.6 to 5 micrometers and uses ten 2048 X 2048 pixel mercury-cadmium-telluride (HgCdTe) detector arrays. The instrument construction is led by the University of Arizona (with Lockheed Martin [3] as the prime contractor and detectors from Teledyne Imaging Sensors [4]); the Principal Investigator is Professor Marcia Rieke [5]. Learn More [1].
Links
[1] http://ircamera.as.arizona.edu/nircam/
[2] http://ngst.gsfc.nasa.gov/
[3] http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/ssc/atc.html
[4] http://www.teledyne-si.com/imaging/index.html
[5] https://www.as.arizona.edu/people/faculty/marcia-j-rieke