The status of the X-ray flight mirror production for the ESA XMM spacecraft

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3114, Issue , 1997, Pages 113-124

  De Chambure, D ^a   Laine R ^a   Van Katwijk, K ^a   Van Casteren, J ^a   Glaude, P ^a  

^a EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Advanced manufacturing; ESA; Mass mirror production; Ultra thin mirror; X ray optics; XMM spacecraft

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; SPACECRAFT; TELESCOPES; X RAY CAMERAS; X RAY OPTICS; X RAY SPECTROMETERS;

REFLECTION GRATING SPECTROMETERS;

MIRRORS;

EID: 0031289090     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.278907     Document Type: Conference Paper

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1. XMM, a large telescope
2. The XMM telescope
3. The status of the X-ray mirror production for the XMM spacecraft
4. XMM X-ray mirror technological development
5. X-ray and EUV characterisation of the first XMM flight mirror module
6. Producing the X-ray mirrors for ESA's XMM spacecraft