NASA’s GUSTO balloon observatory has arrived on Antarctica onboard the Wallops C-130 airplane. It is scheduled for launch around the 15th of December. GUSTO is equipped with three 8-pixel far-infrared cameras delivered by SRON and TU Delft and will carry out the first large-scale survey with velocity-resolved imaging of the spectral lines emitted by three cosmic elements between stars.
Month: October 2023
Resolve instrument XRISM tested after launch: all lights are green
After lift-off on September 7th 2023, the X-ray space telescope XRISM goes through various tests to check whether all parts have survived the launch. All detector elements of the Resolve instrument, which SRON has contributed to, have now picked up X-rays from the calibration source. They achieve an energy resolution better than 5 eV.
