• DOI:10.1007/s10909-022-02771-3
• Corpus ID: 244117671

Micro-X Sounding Rocket Payload Re-flight Progress

@article{Adams2021MicroXSR,
  title={Micro-X Sounding Rocket Payload Re-flight Progress},
  author={J. S. Adams and S. R. Bandler and No{\"e}mie Bastidon and Megan E. Eckart and E. Figueroa-Feliciano and J. Fuhrman and D. C. Goldfinger and A. J. F. Hubbard and Daniel Jardin and Richard Lloyd Kelley and C. A. Kilbourne and R. E. Manzagol-Harwood and Dan McCammon and Takashi Okajima and Frederick S. Porter and Carl D. Reintsema and S. J. Smith},
  journal={Journal of Low Temperature Physics},
  year={2021},
  volume={209},
  pages={832 - 838}
}

• J. Adams, S. Bandler, +14 authors S. Smith
• Published 12 November 2021
• Physics
• Journal of Low Temperature Physics

Micro-X is an X-ray sounding rocket payload that had its first flight on July 22, 2018. The goals of the first flight were to operate a transition edge sensor X-ray microcalorimeter array in space and take a high-resolution spectrum of the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant. The first flight was considered a partial success. The array and its time-division multiplexing readout system were successfully operated in space, but due to a failure in the attitude control system, no time on-target was acquired. A re-flight has been scheduled for summer 2022. Since the first flight, modifications have been made to the detector systems to improve noise and reduce the susceptibility to magnetic fields. The three-stage SQUID circuit, NIST MUX06a, has been replaced by a two-stage SQUID circuit, NIST MUX18b. The initial laboratory results for the new detector system will be presented in this paper.