Capability improvements at the Marshall Space Flight Center's x-ray and cryogenic facility

Jeff Kegley; William Abbot; Wayne Baumgartner; Mark Baker; Gregory Daspit; William Hogue; Steve Johnson; Kristin Madsen; Mark Mimovich; James Tucker; Ernie Wright

doi:10.1117/12.2678607

5 October 2023 Capability improvements at the Marshall Space Flight Center's x-ray and cryogenic facility

Jeff Kegley, William Abbot, Wayne Baumgartner, Mark Baker, Gregory Daspit, William Hogue, Steve Johnson, Kristin Madsen, Mark Mimovich, James Tucker, Ernie Wright

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Proceedings Volume 12679, Optics for EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Astronomy XI; 126790Y (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2678607
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2023, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The X-Ray and Cryogenic Facility (XRCF) at Marshall Space Flight Center is the world’s largest x-ray optic calibration facility and NASA’s premier cryogenic optical test facility. Built specifically to calibrate the Chandra telescope, the facility contributed to several other x-ray missions until 2005 when it became dedicated to normal incidence optical testing at cryogenic temperatures. Recently the facility’s x-ray test capability has been returned to service and updated. New beam monitors, focal plane detectors, and test article and instrument positioning systems have been added. The x-ray data acquisition system has been updated. A real-time position monitoring metrology system is being developed that will enable calibration of large diameter optics via partial illumination in a diverging beam. The newly expanded x-ray test capabilities of the facility will be discussed.

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Jeff Kegley, William Abbot, Wayne Baumgartner, Mark Baker, Gregory Daspit, William Hogue, Steve Johnson, Kristin Madsen, Mark Mimovich, James Tucker, and Ernie Wright "Capability improvements at the Marshall Space Flight Center's x-ray and cryogenic facility", Proc. SPIE 12679, Optics for EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Astronomy XI, 126790Y (5 October 2023); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2678607

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