The upcoming launch will also include an experimental lunar lander to pinpoint landing areas on the Moon.
XRISM , a joint mission between the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and NASA, is designed to detect X-rays with energies ranging from 400 to 12,000 electron volts . Viewing the skies in this range will provide astronomers a rare look at some of the universe’s hottest regions, largest structures, and objects with the strongest gravity, according toreveal pieces from the origin story of the universe and how it came to be.
“Once XRISM begins collecting data, scientists will have the opportunity to propose sources for the mission to study,” Mihoko Yukita, an astrophysicist at Goddard and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and a member of the team at NASA’s Guest Observer Facility for XRISM. “Researchers from around the world will have access to the cutting-edge work XRISM will be doing.”
Packed alongside the X-Ray satellite is JAXA’s SLIM , a small lunar lander designed to test a new technology for pinpointing a specific landing site on the Moon within a smaller range of 328 feet .
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