STIX

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).

Link

http://sci.esa.int/solarorbiter

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

Project partner

European Space Technologiy Center, ESA, Nordwijk, NL
Diverse Hochschulen und/oder Firmen

Contracting authority

SAP reference

t396-0040-2

Keywords

Subject (DDC)

600 - Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften

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