Videos
Horizontal sequence test opening all experiment doors.
Spin balance test of whole payload with experiment doors open.
Section door test
Solar wind charge exchange
This animation illustrates solar wind charge exchange in action. An atom of interstellar helium (blue) collides with a solar wind ion (red), losing one of its electrons (yellow) to the other particle. As it settles into a lower-energy state, the electron emits a soft X-ray.
DXL
Diffuse X-ray Emission from the Local Galaxy (September 2014):
The focusing properties of the micropore reflectors
Emile Schyns from Photonis demonstrating the focusing properties of the micropore reflectors (8 November 2010).