FOXSI Fact Sheet

FOXSI

Focusing Optics X-ray Solar Imager

The Focusing Optics X-ray Solar Imager (FOXSI) is the first solar-dedicated NASA-sounding rocket experiment that performs imaging spectroscopy in hard X-rays (HXRs) using direct focusing techniques. FOXSI has improved the sensitivity and imaging dynamic range by orders of magnitude compared to its predecessors (e.g., RHESSI), demonstrated in three successful flights (2012, 2014, and 2018). FOXSI is currently funded to fly a fourth time in NASA’s first solar flare campaign. The FOXSI rocket payload is a pathfinder to indicate the sort of scientific accomplishments that a solar-dedicated spacecraft based on this technology could achieve in the future.

For more, see the FOXSI research overview webpages.

PARTNERS

University of Minnesota, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, University of Tokyo IPMU, Nagoya University, European Space Agency, Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz (FHNW), Johns Hopkins University APL, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), Rikkyo University, University of Alabama Huntsville, Universities Space Research Association (USRA).

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR (PI)

Lindsay Glesener (University of Minnesota)

TEAM

SSL Team: Säm Krucker, Milo Buitrago-Casas, Juan Carlos Martínez-Oliveros, Savannah Perez-Piel, Tamar Ervin, Orlando Romeo, Sasha Courtade, Hunter Kanniainen

FOXSI

Focusing Optics X-ray Solar Imager

Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley

Space Sciences Laboratory
at the University of California, Berkeley