X-ray telescope X-Calibur flies high above New Mexico
Wednesday, September 21, 2016 - 08:31
in Astronomy & Space
On Sept. 19, Henric Krawczynski, the principal investigator on the X-Calibur telescope mission, announced on the mission blog that the telescope had landed safely near the border between Arizona and New Mexico. The team retrieved the temperature-sensitive X-ray mirror, but is waiting for a bulldozer to make a path for the recovery truck so the researchers can recover the gondola and the telescope it carries.