NIXT
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The NIXT, or Normal Incidence X-ray Telescope, was a
visible light
.
NIXT and its sister rocket, the MSSTA, were the prototypes for all normal-incidence EUV imaging instruments in use today, including SOHO/EIT, TRACE, and STEREO/SECCHI.
In 1989, a NIXT sounding rocket launch detected soft X-Rays coming from a
corona.[1] Results from the observations were presented in 1990 in different papers.[1] NIXT was launched throughout the early 1990s and a paper summarizing the results from these mission was published in 1996.[2]
A successor program to NIXT, was the TXI (Tunable XUV Imager) sounding rocket program[2][3]
See also
- List of X-ray space telescopes
- Rapid Acquisition Imaging Spectrograph Experiment
References
- ^ doi:10.1086/170328.
- ^ a b Golub, Leon (September 1996). "A Normal Incidence X-ray Telescope (NIXT) Sounding Rocket Payload" (PDF).
- ^ Brinton, John; Golub, Leon (July 2004). "The Tunable XUV Imager (TXI) Sounding Rocket Payload".
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