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Sounding Rocket LCAS Mission Candidates. Technological Advances: Off-plane gratings: being developed for use aboard IXO to achieve high spectral resolution in the soft x-ray bandpass GEM Detectors: a new, inexpensive, large format detector being studied for use aboard future space missions
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Sounding Rocket LCAS Mission Candidates • Technological Advances: • Off-plane gratings: being developed for use aboard IXO to achieve high spectral resolution in the soft x-ray bandpass • GEM Detectors: a new, inexpensive, large format detector being studied for use aboard future space missions • Wire grid collimators: An inexpensive and low mass method of collimating x-rays from extended sources. Astrophysics Sounding Rocket Roadmap Panel