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XRISM
TelescopeSuccessor to the lost Hitomi, carrying a microcalorimeter spectrometer and a wide-field X-ray imager.
- Launch mass
- 2,700 kg
- Size
- 4.5 m × 2.2 m, span 14 m
- Power
- Solar
- Built by
- NEC
- Designator
- 2023-137A
Image: ESA · CC BY-SA 3.0 igo · Wikimedia Commons
- Launched
- 6 Sept 202323:42:11 UTC
- Active for
- 3 years 2 months
- Destinations
- Low Earth orbit
A JAXA and NASA X-ray observatory that measures the energy of X-rays with great precision, revealing the temperature, composition and motion of hot gas around black holes and in galaxy clusters.
Milestones
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Spacecraft
Active
Mission details from global.jaxa.jp.