Intro

Welcome to Lindsay's FOXSI blog!  This isn't an official project blog, just something I'm throwing together so friends and family can keep up on my adventures in the desert.

A little intro:  FOXSI is an experiment that has an X-ray telescope and camera to make X-ray images and spectra of the Sun.  FOXSI was born in three places: the Space Sciences Laboratory in Berkeley, California, the NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science in Sagamihara, Japan.  All these pieces are being put together right now at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, where FOXSI will launch on a sounding rocket at the end of March!  The information we get from this 15-minute flight will give us feedback on our technology and allow us to look for never-before-seen signals from the quiet part of the Sun.

We'll be out in White Sands from late February to early April for the preparations and launch.  The flight is planned for March 30…stay tuned to see how we do!