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XRISM Gallery
Images
XRISM Telescope in Tanegashima, Japan. Credit: R. Kelley
XRISM was launched by the H-IIA
rocket from the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan. Credit: L. Hartz
XRISM was launched by the H-IIA
rocket from the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan. Credit: L. Hartz
Launch image of H-IIA launch Vehicle (No.47). Credit: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Launch image of H-IIA launch Vehicle (No.47). Credit: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Full X-ray Mirror Assembly (XMA) setup with primary and secondary mirrors, all quadrants, and all foils installed.
Single mirror quadrant. Credit: Taylor Mickal/NASA
XRISM instrument team member showing a single mirror foil. Credit: Taylor Mickal/NASA
XRISM Resolve Calorimeter insert with detector installed.
The Resolve detector is a microcalorimeter array.
Videos
JAXA's live coverage of the launch of XRISM/SLIM.
Assembling XRISM's Mirrors: 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
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