XRISM: Calorimeter Spectrometer Insert and Mirror Tests

XRISM turntable animations, available both as 4K/30 and 60 fps movies and as frames. The exposed tank behind the truss structure on the side opposite the solar panels houses the Resolve instrument.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab XRISM right-side flyby, available both as a 4K/30 fps movie and as frames. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab XRISM right side to left side flyby, favoring the X-ray mirrors and star trackers in the front, available both as a 4K/30 fps movie and as frames.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab XRISM flyover, favoring the X-ray mirrors and star trackers in the front and the Resolve instrument within the truss structure at the spacecraft's far end. Available both as a 4K/30 fps movie and as frames.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab Illustration of XRISM in space favoring the side opposite the solar panels, available in 8K and with transparent background.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab Illustration of XRISM in space favoring the X-ray mirrors and star trackers in front, available in 8K and with transparent background.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab Illustration of XRISM, left front view, available in 8K and with transparent background.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab Illustration of XRISM, right rear view from above, available in 8K and with transparent background.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab Illustration of XRISM, left side view from above, available in 8K and with transparent background.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab This page contains animations and illustrations of the X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission spacecraft, which is scheduled to launch into orbit around Earth in 2023.The mission, abbreviated XRISM (pronounced “crism”), is a collaboration between the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NASA, along with ESA (the European Space Agency) participation, to investigate the X-ray universe using high-resolution imaging and spectroscopy. XRISM features two instruments: Resolve, an X-ray calorimeter spectrometer, and Xtend, an X-ray imager. Cooled to a fraction of a degree above absolute zero, Resolve’s detector can measure the slight amount of heat generated when each pixel absorbs a single X-ray photon. Xtend will image a field of view about 60% larger than the apparent size of a full moon, giving it XRISM the widest view of any X-ray imaging satellite flown to date. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, developed the X-ray Mirror Assemblies used for both instruments, as well as the Resolve detector and many of its subsystems. Related pages

Team members Lawrence Lozipone of Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies, Inc. and Yang Soong, a researcher at the University of Maryland, College Park, work with flight mirrors for the X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM). Nested aluminum mirror segments – 1,624 of them for each X-ray Mirror Assembly – focus the incoming X-rays for the satellite's science instruments. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Shorter version of the above video.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center The videos on this page show completed components of the flight mirror assemblies for the X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM, pronounced “crism”), which is expected to launch from Japan in 2023.An X-ray Mirror Assembly (XMA) includes both a primary and a secondary mirror. Each is built using four quadrants that contain 203 nested aluminum mirror segments, for a total of 1,624 segments in each XMA. The mirrors will deflect incoming light into the satellite’s two instruments: an X-ray calorimeter spectrometer called Resolve, and an X-ray imager called Xtend.XRISM is a collaboration between the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NASA, along with ESA participation, to investigate the X-ray universe using high-resolution imaging and spectroscopy. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center developed the XMAs for both instruments, as well as the Resolve detector and many of its subsystems. Related pages

XRISM team member Yang Soong, a researcher at the University of Maryland, College Park, displays completed mirror elements for an X-ray Mirror Assembly developed for the JAXA/NASA mission. Credit: Taylor Mickal/NASA XRISM team member Yang Soong, a researcher at the University of Maryland, College Park, adjusts one quadrant of an X-ray Mirror Assembly developed for the JAXA/NASA mission. Credit: Taylor Mickal/NASA XRISM team member Yang Soong, a researcher at the University of Maryland, College Park, adjusts one quadrant of an X-ray Mirror Assembly developed for the JAXA/NASA mission. Credit: Taylor Mickal/NASA XRISM team member Yang Soong, a researcher at the University of Maryland, College Park, displays one of the 1,624 foil mirror segments used in an X-ray Mirror Assembly being built for the JAXA/NASA mission. Credit: Taylor Mickal/NASA An X-ray Mirror Assembly being built for the JAXA/NASA XRISM mission consists of a primary and secondary mirror, each containing 812 nested foil mirror segments. Team member Yang Soong, a researcher at the University of Maryland, College Park, looks on. Credit: Taylor Mickal/NASA XRISM team member Yang Soong, a researcher at the University of Maryland, College Park, displays a completed mirror quadrant from an X-ray Mirror Assembly being built for the JAXA/NASA mission. Credit: Taylor Mickal/NASA Completed quadrants of an X-ray Mirror Assembly being built for the JAXA/NASA XRISM mission are shown. Team member Lawrence Lozipone of Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies, Inc. appears in the background.Credit: Taylor Mickal/NASA Completed quadrants for an X-ray Mirror Assembly being developed for the JAXA/NASA XRISM mission appear in the foreground as team member Lawrence Lozipone of Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies, Inc. adjusts one for another assembly in the background.Credit: Taylor Mickal/NASA Credit: Taylor Mickal/NASA Credit: Taylor Mickal/NASA Credit: Taylor Mickal/NASA Credit: Taylor Mickal/NASA Credit: Taylor Mickal/NASA Credit: Taylor Mickal/NASA Credit: Taylor Mickal/NASA Credit: Taylor Mickal/NASA Credit: Taylor Mickal/NASA Credit: Taylor Mickal/NASA Credit: Taylor Mickal/NASA Credit: Taylor Mickal/NASA The X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM, pronounced “crism”) is a collaboration between the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NASA, along with ESA participation, to investigate the X-ray universe using high-resolution imaging and spectroscopy. XRISM features two instruments: Resolve, an X-ray calorimeter spectrometer, and Xtend, an X-ray imager. These images, taken in June 2019, show completed elements of one XRISM flight X-ray Mirror Assembly (XMA). Each XMA includes both a primary and a secondary mirror. Each mirror has four quadrants with 203 nested foil mirror segments apiece, for a total of 1,624 mirror segments in one XMA. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center developed the X-ray Mirror Assemblies, as well as the Resolve detector and many of its subsystems. XRISM is expected to launch in 2023. Related pages