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Donovan, Benjamin D.; McEntaffer, Randall L.; Tutt, James H.; Schultz, Ted B.; Holland, Karen; Biskach, Michael P.; Chan, Kai-Wing; Hlinka, Michal; Kearney, John D.; Mazzarella, James R.; McClelland, Ryan S.; Riveros, Raul E.; Saha, Timo T.; Zhang, William W.; Holland, Andrew D.; Lewis, Matthew R.; Soman, Matthew R. and Murray, Neil J.
(2018).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2312219
Abstract
The Off-plane Grating Rocket Experiment (OGRE) is a soft X-ray spectroscopy suborbital rocket payload scheduled for launch in Q3 2020 from Wallops Flight Facility. The payload will serve as a testbed for several key technologies which can help achieve the desired performance increases for the next generation of X-ray spectrographs and other space-based missions: monocrystalline silicon X-ray mirrors developed at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, reflection gratings manufactured at The Pennsylvania State University, and electron-multiplying CCDs developed by the Open University and XCAM Ltd. With these three technologies, OGRE hopes to obtain the highest-resolution on-sky soft X-ray spectrum to date. We discuss the optical design of the OGRE payload.