ASTRO-H

ASTRO -H (formerly Non -thermal Energy eXploration Telescope NeXT ) is the provisional designation of a Japanese X-ray satellite, which in 2014 started with a launcher H -II.

The telescope is to continue begun by ASTRO -D investigations and capture the range of hard X-rays above 10 keV.

ASTRO -H is intended to reflect cosmic objects in the gamma radiation range from 0.1 keV to 80 keV and capture spectroscopy to 600 keV. For technical reasons, X-ray telescopes have a long focal length. ASTRO -H provides a boom of twelve meters in length and has a total length of 14 meters.

Instruments

• Hard X -ray Telescope ( HXT ) of the CSA
• Soft X -ray Telescope ( SXT -S, SXT -I)
• Hard X -ray Imager ( HXI )
• Soft X -ray Spectrometer ( SXS ), NASA
• Soft X -ray Imager ( SXI )
• Soft Gamma -ray Detector ( SGD)