Steven Christe Holding a Cadmium Telluride Detector (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Steven Christe Holding a Cadmium Telluride Detector

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Co-investigator Steven Christe is holding a cadmium telluride detector made by the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. Goddard is developing space-qualified read-out electronics for the detector, which will detect hard X-rays during the FOXSI-3 mission.

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Credits: NASA/W. Hrybyk

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