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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. Approved missions having launch dates are so indicated. 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Survey Telescope for Energetic Radiation Black Hole Imager: MAXIM Con-X: The Constellation X-ray Mission has now been superceded by a joint ESA/JAXA/NASA concept, IXO: International X-ray Observatory GEMS: Gravity and Extreme Magnetism Small Explorer mission [2014] Gen-X: The Generation X-Ray Mission, a large effective area (50 square meters at 1 keV, or 500 x Chandra) X-ray telescope to study the new frontier of astrophysics: the birth and evolution of the first stars, galaxies, and black holes in the early Universe LISA: Laser Interferometer Space Antenna gravitational-wave observatory NuSTAR: Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, a focusing hard X-ray telescope observatory [2011] WFXT: Wide-Field X-ray Telescope, a proposed mission with an effective area 10 x Chandra's to perform surveys of the sky in the soft X-ray band (0.4-6 keV) Xenia: a Probe of Cosmic Chemical Evolution, a concept study for a medium-size cosmology mission (with international collaborators) which will use gamma-ray bursts to probe the cosmic 'web', dark energy, dark matter, and clusters of galaxies International ASTROSAT, a multi-wavelength astronomy mission including soft and hard X-ray instruments [India: 2010] EDGE: Explorer of Diffuse emission and Gamma ray burst Explosions [Europe] HXMT: Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope [China: 2011] MAXI: Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image, a soft X-ray all-sky monitor experiment on the Kibo module of the ISS [Japan: 2009] 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: 2014] NHXM: New Hard X-ray Mission, a mission to do soft and hard X-ray imaging and polarimetry [Italy] Spectrum XG (includes e-ROSITA) [Russia/Germany/UK/USA: 2012] XEUS: ESA Post-XMM Mission has now been superceded by a joint ESA/JAXA/NASA concept, IXO: International X-ray Observatory [Europe/Japan/USA] Web page author: Meredith Gibb HEASARC Home | Observatories | Archive | Calibration | Software | Tools | Students/Teachers/Public Last modified: Friday, 18-Sep-2009 11:30:34 EDT