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Arcus

(X-ray space telescope plan aiming for 2031 launch)

Arcus is a plan (developed c2010-2015) for an X-ray space observatory using a grating spectrometer in the soft X-ray range, intending to provide astronomical data on spectral lines previously unavailable. It has been proposed but not selected for NASA missions and remains a possibility for a future mission. Or possibly the plan will offer ideas for other future X-ray missions.


(telescope,X-ray,spacecraft,NASA,plan)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcus_(satellite)
http://www.arcusxray.org/
https://pweb.cfa.harvard.edu/facilities-technology/telescopes-instruments/arcus
http://www.arcusxray.org/Arcus-SPIE2017-submitted.pdf
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022ApJ...934..171H/abstract
https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.16939
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025JATIS..11a1004H/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025JATIS..11a1007G/abstract
WaveLFreqPhoton
Energy
  
1nm300PHz1.3keVbeginArcus
6nm50PHz207eVendArcus

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