The CHANDRA X-Ray Observatory: Thermal Design, Verification, and Early Orbit Experience

摘要

The CHANDRA X-ray Observatory (formerly AXAF), one of NASA's "Great Observatories" was launched aboard the Shuttle in July 1999. CHANDRA comprises a grazing-incidence X-ray telescope of unprecedented focal length, collecting area and angular resolution- better than two orders of magnitude improvement in imaging performance over any previous soft X-ray (0.1- 150 deg. K passively-cooled detector, provide celestial X-ray images and spectra.