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X-Ray Optics at NASA Marshall Space Flight CenterNASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) engages in research, development, design, fabrication, coating, assembly, and testing of grazing-incidence optics (primarily) for x-ray telescope systems. Over the past two decades, MSFC has refined processes for electroformed-nickel replication of grazing-incidence optics, in order to produce high-strength, thin-walled, full-cylinder x-ray mirrors. In recent years, MSFC has used this technology to fabricate numerous x-ray mirror assemblies for several flight (balloon, rocket, and satellite) programs. Additionally, MSFC has demonstrated the suitability of this technology for ground-based laboratory applications-namely, x-ray microscopes and cold-neutron microscopes and concentrators. This mature technology enables the production, at moderately low cost, of reasonably lightweight x-ray telescopes with good (15-30 arcsecond) angular resolution. However, achieving arcsecond imaging for a lightweight x-ray telescope likely requires development of other technologies. Accordingly, MSFC is conducting a multi-faceted research program toward enabling cost-effective production of lightweight high-resolution x-ray mirror assemblies. Relevant research topics currently under investigation include differential deposition for post-fabrication figure correction, in-situ monitoring and control of coating stress, and direct fabrication of thin-walled full-cylinder grazing-incidence mirrors.
Document ID
20150022499
Acquisition Source
Marshall Space Flight Center
Document Type
Presentation
Authors
O'Dell, Stephen L. (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL United States)
Atkins, Carolyn (Alabama Univ. Huntsville, AL, United States)
Broadway, David M. (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL United States)
Elsner, Ronald F. (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL United States)
Gaskin, Jessica A. (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL United States)
Gubarev, Mikhail V. (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL United States)
Kilaru, Kiranmayee (Universities Space Research Association Huntsville, AL, United States)
Kolodziejczak, Jeffery J. (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL United States)
Ramsey, Brian D. (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL United States)
Roche, Jacqueline M. (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL United States)
Swartz, Douglas A. (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL United States)
Tennant, Allyn F. (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL United States)
Weisskopf, Martin C. (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL United States)
Zavlin, Vyacheslav E. (Universities Space Research Association Huntsville, AL, United States)
Date Acquired
December 8, 2015
Publication Date
April 13, 2015
Subject Category
Optics
Report/Patent Number
MSFC-E-DAA-TN22572
Meeting Information
Meeting: EOO109 EUV and X-ray Optics: Synergy Between Laboratory and Space (SPIE 9510)
Location: Prague, Czech Republic
Country: Czechoslovakia
Start Date: April 13, 2015
End Date: April 16, 2015
Sponsors: International Society for Optical Engineering
Funding Number(s)
WBS: WBS 399131.02.01.03.88
CONTRACT_GRANT: NNM13AA43C
CONTRACT_GRANT: NNM13AA03A
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Public Use Permitted.
Keywords
X-ray telescope
electroformed
X-Ray Optics

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