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.


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    Title :

    Performance of the engineering model x-ray mirror of the Solar X-ray Imager (SXI) for future GOES missions



    Conference:

    X-Ray Optics, Instruments, and Missions IV ; 2000 ; San Diego,CA,United States


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2000-11-28





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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