We have measured the x-ray imaging performance of a grazing incidence telescope mirror, the HT #17, employing a hyperboloid-hyperboloid design. This design provides improved wide-field imaging compared to an optimally defocused Wolter Type I mirror. This improvement will be advantageous for future Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) missions that will provide full disk images of the sun with the Solar X-ray Imager (SXI). The x-ray measurements were made in the X-Ray Calibration Facility (XRCF) at Marshall Space Flight Center and the results are presented here.
Performance of the engineering model x-ray mirror of the Solar X-ray Imager (SXI) for future GOES missions
X-Ray Optics, Instruments, and Missions IV ; 2000 ; San Diego,CA,United States
Proc. SPIE ; 4138
2000-11-28
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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