Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite

Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite is a proposed space telescope. If selected by NASA in 2026, it is expected to launch in 2032. It is designed for high angular resolution X-ray imaging. The mission goals are to examine galaxies over cosmic time, feedback in galaxies, black hole strong gravity, dual active galactic nucleus, the high redshift universe.

History

The Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite, a response to NASA's Astrophysics Probe Explorer
program.

Instruments

The X-ray grazing incident mirror would be developed by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and combines 10,000 mirror segments made from silicon, grouped into 10 shells. The detector is an array of CCDs giving a field of view of about 24 arcminutes and a spatial resolution of about 1.5 arcsecond over the entire field.