STIX
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Project type
angewandte Forschung
Project start
01.07.2010
Project end
31.12.2017
Project status
abgeschlossen
Project contact
Arnold, Nicolas Georg
Project manager
Description
Abstract
STIX is an X-ray telescope for solar observations designed and built at FHNW . As part of an instrument suite, STIX will fly on ESAs Solar Orbiter mission (to be launch in 2017). Solar Orbiter will perform unprecedented detailed measurements of the inner heliosphere and nascent solar wind, and perform close observations of the polar regions of the Sun, both serving to answer the question 'How does the Sun create and control the heliosphere?'. Solar Orbiter will make observations of the Sun from just inside Mercurys orbit at 0.28 astronomical units (AU).
Created during FHNW affiliation
Strategic action fields FHNW
School
Hochschule für Informatik FHNW
Institute
Institut für Data Science
Financed by
Bundesämter und kantonale Initiativen
Europäischer Forschungsraum EFR
Europäischer Forschungsraum EFR
Project partner
European Space Technologiy Center, ESA, Nordwijk, NL
Diverse Hochschulen und/oder Firmen
Diverse Hochschulen und/oder Firmen
Contracting authority
SAP reference
t396-0040-2