Asian Surveying & Mapping
Breaking News
bitsensing Signs MOU with IKIO Technologies to Advance AI-Based Traffic Monitoring on India’s Expressways, Highways and Municipal Areas
Backed by proven success in South Korea and Europe,...
Nuri rocket successfully completes KAIST’s next-gen satellite mission
The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)...
President Lai reviews progress on first indigenous satellite constellation
President Lai Ching-te said developing space technology is a...
Japan’s iQPS lines up eight SAR launches
ST. LOUIS — Japan’s Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of...
UAE Astronauts Promote AI and Collaboration in Space at GITEX Europe
The Arab world’s first astronaut, Hazzaa Al Mansouri, and...
New species of space-adapted bacteria discovered on China’s Tiangong space station
Scientists have discovered a previously unknown strain of microbe...
Isro’s 101st mission fails as PSLV-C61 suffers third-stage anomaly
India’s latest Earth observation satellite mission faced a setback...
Iraq’s First Fully Solar-Powered Village in Kulak Is Now Operational
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – May 20, 2025 — The...
Australia’s Gilmour Space Technologies ready to launch maiden Eris Test flight the nation’s first orbital launch in over 50 years
Gilmour Space Technologies is the leading launch services company...
Korea’s space agency seeks revision of plan to modify next-gen rockets into reusable system
South Korea's aerospace agency said on Thursday that it...
  • Mar 5, 2024
  • Comments Off on JAXA’s X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) Releases Early Observation Data 
  • Feature
  • 748 Views

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is pleased to announce that the X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) completed its commissioning period as planned and has transitioned to the nominal phase.
XRISM is conducting an initial calibration and performance verification operation to understand the individual characteristics of its onboard instruments and improve observation accuracy. XRISM will then start astronomical observations based on proposals from global researchers.
The accompanying figure shows a spectrum of the central region of the Perseus cluster, obtained with the soft X-ray spectrometer (Resolve) onboard XRISM. The Perseus cluster is a galaxy cluster located about 240 million light-years from Earth and is the most luminous giant cluster of galaxies in X-rays. The precise X-ray spectra from Resolve will reveal the distribution and motion of dark matter by measuring the temperature and velocity of the plasma. This data is expected to reveal how clusters of galaxies form and how they evolve. 

Image Credit: JAXA/NASA/CXC/IoA/A.Fabian et al./NRAO/VLA/G. Taylor/ESA/Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)/Univ. of Cambridge)