ESA Science & Technology - MIRAX: a Brazilian X-ray astronomy satellite mission

Publication date: 01 December 2003

Authors: Braga, J, et al.

Journal: Advances in Space Research
Volume: 34
Issue: 12
Page: 2657-2661
Year: 2003

Copyright: Elsevier

We describe the "Monitor e Imageador de Raios-X" (MIRAX), an X-ray astronomy satellite mission proposed by the high-energy astrophysics group at the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) in Brazil to the Brazilian Space Agency. MIRAX is an international collaboration that includes, besides INPE, the University of California San Diego, the University of Tubingen in Germany, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Space Research Organization Netherlands.