Upcoming spacewalk should help NICER see more nicely
NASA is preparing to launch a repair kit to the International Space Station for a telescope that was never designed to be tinkered with by astronauts.
The telescope is attached near the station's starboard array and was launched on a SpaceX Dragon resupply mission in 2017. NICER was supposed toAs the name suggests, the telescope is all about the study of neutron stars. Its primary science instrument, the X-ray Timing Instrument , has an array of 56 X-ray photon detectors, which record the energies of photons and note when they hit.It was all going swimmingly until May 22, 2023, between 1300 and 1400 UTC.
The ISS team has plenty of experience when it comes to repairing payloads that were never intended to be touched by astronauts. A series of spacewalks, ending in 2020, were undertaken
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