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SuperHERO: The Next Generation Hard X-ray HEROES TelescopeSuperHERO is a new high-sensitivity Long Duration Balloon (LDB)-capable, hard-x-ray (20-75 keV) telescope for making novel astrophysics and heliophysics observations. The proposed SuperHERO payload will be developed jointly by the Astrophysics Office at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, the Solar Physics Laboratory and Wallops Flight Facility at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. SuperHERO is a follow-on payload to the High Energy Replicated Optics to Explore the Sun (HEROES) balloon-borne telescope that recently launched from Fort Sumner, NM in September of 2013. The HEROES core instrument is a hard x-ray telescope consisting of x-ray 109 optics configured into 8 modules. Each module is aligned to a matching gas-filled detector at a focal length of 6 m. SuperHERO will make significant improvements to the HEROES payload, including: new solid-state multi-pixel CdTe detectors, additional optics, the Wallops Arc-Second Pointer, alignment monitoring systems and lighter gondola.
Document ID
20140011700
Acquisition Source
Marshall Space Flight Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Gaskin, Jessica A. (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Christe, Steven D. (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Wilson-Hodge, Colleen (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Shih, Albert Y. M. (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Ramsey, Brian D. (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Tennant, Allyn F. (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Swartz, Douglas A. (Universities Space Research Association Huntsville, AL, United States)
Date Acquired
September 15, 2014
Publication Date
June 22, 2014
Subject Category
Astronomy
Solar Physics
Report/Patent Number
M14-3645
Meeting Information
Meeting: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2014
Location: Montreal, Quebec
Country: Canada
Start Date: June 22, 2014
End Date: June 27, 2014
Sponsors: International Society for Optical Engineering
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Public Use Permitted.

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