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    The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM, pronounced "crism"), formerly the X-ray Astronomy Recovery Mission (XARM), is an X-ray space telescope...
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    Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (category Missions to the Moon)
    delays in its rideshare, the X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM). On 6 September 2023 at 23:42 UTC, XRISM launched, and SLIM separated from it later...
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    are done accordingly. The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) was approved by JAXA and NASA in April 2017, and successfully launched in September...
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    has a much higher angular resolution and XMM-Newton higher spectroscopy throughput. In 1976, the Chandra X-ray Observatory (called AXAF at the time)...
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    XMM-Newton, also known as the High Throughput X-ray Spectroscopy Mission and the X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission, is an X-ray space observatory launched by the European...
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    wide field imaging and hard X-ray imaging detector, a high-spectral-resolution imaging spectrometer, a high timing resolution spectrometer, and a polarimeter...
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    combine, for the first time, high-resolution imaging in hard X-rays and gamma rays with high-resolution spectroscopy, so that a detailed energy spectrum could...
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    radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, X-rays, and gamma rays. The electromagnetic waves in each of these bands have different...
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    Centre (URSC). As per ISRO, this mission will complement the efforts of US space agency NASA, which launched its Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE)...
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    refraction-enhanced imaging, and X-ray interferometry. These methods provide higher contrast compared to normal absorption-based X-ray imaging, making it possible...
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    History of radiation protection (category Nuclear safety and security)
    field of X-rays and imaging techniques 2006; 178(8), p. 753–756. Richard J. Vetter, Magdalena S. Stoeva: Radiation Protection in Medical Imaging and Radiation...
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    The Array of Low Energy X-ray Imaging Sensors (ALEXIS, also known as P89-1B, COSPAR 1993-026A, SATCAT 22638) X-ray telescope featured curved mirrors whose...
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    observatories) is grouped by major frequency ranges: gamma ray, x-ray, ultraviolet, visible, infrared, microwave and radio. Telescopes that work in multiple frequency...
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    Suzaku (satellite) (category X-ray telescopes)
    the X-ray Spectrometer-2 (XRS-2), which was the spacecraft's primary instrument. The two other instruments, the X-ray Imaging Spectrometer (XIS) and the...
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    telescopes in one spacecraft, covering X-rays and gamma rays, including various specialized sub-instruments and detectors. Following 14 years of effort...
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    Aditya-L1 (category Missions to the Sun)
    resolution imaging 1.25-2.5 arcseconds of the Sun's corona, simultaneous observations in three modes (Imaging, Spectroscopy and Spectro-polarimetry), and even...
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    science missions. In addition to Lynx (originally called X-ray Surveyor in the Roadmap document), they are the Habitable Exoplanet Imaging Mission (HabEx)...
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    each photon. The study and analysis of gamma-ray spectra for scientific and technical use is called gamma spectroscopy, and gamma-ray spectrometers are the...
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    Exploration of the Moon (category Discovery and exploration of the Solar System)
    delayed until 2023 due to delays in SLIM's ride-share mission, X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM). It was successfully launched on 6 September...
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    in 2002, and is designed to provide imaging and spectroscopy of cosmic sources. In the MeV energy range, it is the most sensitive gamma ray observatory...
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  • unprecedented effective area and wide field of the Athena telescope, will provide breakthrough capabilities in X-ray imaging spectroscopy. The WFI is developed...
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  • commercial satellites or crewed missions. Green, Constance McLaughlin; Lomask, Milton (1970). Vanguard: A History. Scientific and Technical Information Division...
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    2023 in spaceflight (category Pages using multiple image with auto scaled images)
    matter and dark energy. ISRO launched Aditya-L1 to study the Sun on September 2. JAXA launched XRISM (X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) X-ray space...
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  • Japanese Lunar Exploration Program (category Missions to the Moon)
    INvestigation and Test-C) mission to test lunar landing technologies. SLIM was successfully launched together with the X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM)...
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  • Observatories". Forbes. Retrieved 27 January 2023. "KEUS – The X-Ray Evolving Universe Spectroscopy Mission". ESA. Retrieved 28 February 2008. "Official NASA IXO...
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    NuSTAR (category X-ray telescopes)
    and the first space-based direct-imaging X-ray telescope at energies beyond those of the Chandra X-ray Observatory and XMM-Newton. It was successfully...
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  • XEUS (X-ray Evolving Universe Spectroscopy) was a space observatory plan developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) as a successor to the successful...
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    astrophysics: Based on the science drivers and purpose, the researchers are considering direct imaging and spectroscopy of reflected starlight in the visible...
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    Short-Hard Burst Progenitor: Constraints from Early-Time Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy of a Possible Host Galaxy of GRB 050509b". Astrophysical Journal...
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    first X-ray astronomy mission to combine imaging capability with a broad passband, good spectral resolution, and a large effective area. The mission also...
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