The X-ray Large Array: A Large Scale X-ray Detector for the Space Station

Abstract

The Naval Research Laboratory, Stanford University, and The University of Washington have proposed a large (100 square meters) array of X-ray detectors, the X-ray Large Array (XLA), to be built at the NASA Space Station and used there for X-ray astrophysics observations. A Pre-Phase A engineering study of XLA has been completed by NASA Marshall Space Flight Center.