@article{fc420ad11c6146439f895d092ef29b6e,
title = "REX: X-ray experiment on the water recovery rocket",
abstract = "This paper presents Rocket Experiment (REX) that was part of a dual-payload rocket campaign for NASA's sounding rocket Black Brant IX with water recovery technology. This mission was a suborbital sounding rocket flight that was launched and recovered on April 4, 2018 and targeted the Vela supernova remnant. The purpose of REX was to classify the Technology Readiness Level of onboard devices designed for space applications. The devices were two wide-field X-ray telescopes consisting of a combination of Lobster-Eye (LE) optics with an uncooled Timepix detector (256px×256px @ 55μm), and additional sensors. The first telescope uses a two-dimensional combination of LE modules with a focal length of 1m and a Field of View (FOV) of 1.0°×1.2° and operates in the energy range of 3–60keV. The second telescope was a one-dimensional LE with a focal length of 243mm and a FOV of 2.7°×8.0° for the energy range 3–40keV. The X-ray telescopes were supplemented by a camera in the visible spectrum with 1.280px×1,024px resolution, which was used to obtain images of the observed sources and to verify the resulting pointing of the rocket carrier. Other devices also include infrared array sensors and inertial measurement units tested for future small satellite missions. The data handler and communication system were built using the Robot Operating System, and both the system and the electronics were deployed and operated in-flight. The hardware was successfully recovered after the launch and the data were extracted.",
author = "Martin Urban and Ond{\v r}ej Nentvich and Tom{\'a}{\v s} B{\'a}{\v c}a and Ivo Ve{\v r}t{\'a}t and Veronika Mar{\v s}{\'i}kov{\'a} and Daniela Doubravov{\'a} and Vladim{\'i}r D{\'a}niel and Adolf Inneman and Ladislav P{\'i}na and Ladislav Sieger and McEntaffer, {Randall L.} and Schultz, {Ted B.} and Miles, {Drew M.} and Tutt, {James H.}",
note = "Funding Information: The team of authors of this article would like to thank the whole team of colleagues who participated in this project, not only: Ond{\v r}ej Petr (Rigaku Innovative Technologies s.r.o.), Robert Filgas (Czech Technical University in Prague), Richard Linhart and Pavel Fiala (University of West Bohemia) and many others without which this project did not arise. We would also like to thank our colleague Petr Skala (Czech Technical University in Prague) for consulting with the processing of astrometric images. This project was performed in collaboration with several universities, companies, and scientific institutions in the Czech Republic and abroad. Namely: Czech Technical University in Prague (CZE) - Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics and Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of West Bohemia (CZE), Rigaku Innovative Technologies s.r.o. (CZE), Czech Aerospace Research Centre a.s. (CZE), PANTER facility of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (DEU), Pennsylvania State University (USA), University of Colorado at Boulder (USA). Many thanks for the willingness, help and pieces of advice belonging to namely: D. Burrows with his team (PSU), W. Cash with teams (CU Boulder), and V. Burwitz with the team (PANTER). The project was supported by the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic under grants no: TA03011329, TA04011295, theGrant Agency of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic under grant no. 18-10088Y, the NASA Astrophysics Research and Analysis, United States grant NNX17AC88G, the Grant Agency of the Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic no. SGS21/120/OHK3/2T/13, and by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic, project no. LTAUSA18094. This work was done on behalf of Medipix2 collaboration. Funding Information: The project was supported by the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic under grants no: TA03011329 , TA04011295 , the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic under grant no. 18-10088Y , the NASA Astrophysics Research and Analysis, United States grant NNX17AC88G , the Grant Agency of the Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic no. SGS21/120/OHK3/2T/13 , and by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic , project no. LTAUSA18094 . This work was done on behalf of Medipix2 collaboration. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 IAA",
year = "2021",
month = jul,
doi = "10.1016/j.actaastro.2021.03.019",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "184",
pages = "1--10",
journal = "Acta Astronautica",
issn = "0094-5765",
publisher = "Elsevier Limited",
}