Science Payload

The MBE science payload is an X-ray Calorimeter Telescope (XCT) to be developed as a team effort with UW-Madison (instrument management), NASA Goddard, and Lockheed Martin.

XCT Characteristics

Conical foil mirror
Large collecting area
60-cm diameter
30' x 30' field of view
1.4-m focal length
5' angular resolution
6 x 6 array of cryogenic microcalorimeters
40 - 2000 eV band pass
4-eV spectral resolution
λ/Δλ ~ 150 for O VII,VIII
18 month cryogen life