Grating design for the Water Recovery X-ray Rocket

Drew M. Miles; Randall L. McEntaffer; Benjamin D. Donovan; James H. Tutt; Tyler Steiner; Christopher R. Hillman; Jake A. McCoy; Ningxiao Zhang

doi:10.1117/12.2312648

6 July 2018 Grating design for the Water Recovery X-ray Rocket

Drew M. Miles, Randall L. McEntaffer, Benjamin D. Donovan, James H. Tutt, Tyler Steiner, Christopher R. Hillman, Jake A. McCoy, Ningxiao Zhang

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Proceedings Volume 10699, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray; 106996K (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2312648
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2018, Austin, Texas, United States

Abstract

The Water Recovery X-ray Rocket (WRXR) is a sounding rocket payload that launched from the Kwajalein Atoll in April 2018 and was the first NASA astrophysics sounding rocket payload to be recovered from water. WRXR's primary instrument is a grating spectrometer that consists of a mechanical collimator, X-ray reflection gratings, grazing-incidence mirrors, and a hybrid CMOS detector. We present here the design of the WRXR spectrometer’s gratings and mirrors.

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Drew M. Miles, Randall L. McEntaffer, Benjamin D. Donovan, James H. Tutt, Tyler Steiner, Christopher R. Hillman, Jake A. McCoy, and Ningxiao Zhang "Grating design for the Water Recovery X-ray Rocket", Proc. SPIE 10699, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 106996K (6 July 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2312648

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