Cosmic Origins
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15 September 2023

Congratulations to the XRISM Team

On behalf of the Cosmic Origins program office and NASA Astrophysics congratulations to the XRISM teams at NASA and JAXA.

The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), which was formerly known as XARM, is a JAXA/NASA collaborative mission, with ESA participation. The objective of the mission is to investigate celestial X-ray objects in the Universe with high-throughput imaging and high-resolution spectroscopy. XRISM was successfully launched from the Tanegashima Space Center at 8:42 am on September 7, 2023 JST in Japan (23:42 on September 6, 2023 UT).

More information on the XRISM mission can be found here: X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM)

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