Future High-Energy Astrophysics and Cosmic Microwave Background Missions

This page lists High Energy Astrophysics and/or Cosmic Microwave Background missions that are either in the programs or are candidates to be in the programs of national or international space agencies.

NASA

Black Hole Finder (see Beyond Einstein program):

EXIST: Energetic X-Ray Imaging Survey Telescope
CASTER: Coded Aperture Survey Telescope for Energetic Radiation

Black Hole Imager: MAXIM

Con-X: The Constellation X-ray Mission has now been superceded by a joint ESA/JAXA/NASA concept, IXO: International X-ray Observatory

GEMS: Gravity and Extreme Magnetism Small Explorer mission

Gen-X: The Generation X-Ray Mission

LISA: Laser Interferometer Space Antenna gravitational-wave observatory

NuSTAR: Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, a focusing hard X-ray telescope observatory

International

ASTROSAT, a multi-wavelength astronomy mission including soft and hard X-ray instruments [India]

EDGE: Explorer of Diffuse emission and Gamma ray burst Explosions [Europe]

HXMT: Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope [China]

MAXI: Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image, a soft X-ray all-sky monitor experiment on the Kibo module of the ISS [Japan]

MIRAX: Monitor e Imageador de Raios X, an X-ray transient mission [Brazil]

NEXT: NEw X-ray Telescope, now called Astro-H, and will include the SXS, a NASA-built high-resolution Soft X-Ray Spectrometer [Japan/USA]

Planck Cosmic Microwave Background mission [Europe]

SIMBOL-X [Italy/France]

Spectrum XG [Russia/Germany/UK/USA]

XEUS: ESA Post-XMM Mission has now been superceded by a joint ESA/JAXA/NASA concept, IXO: International X-ray Observatory [Europe/Japan/USA]

Web page author: Karen Smale

Last modified: Thursday, 21-Aug-2008 14:34:57 EDT