XL-Calibur Graduate Student Lindsey Lisalda Honored by the Association of Women Faculty
XL-Calibur graduate student Lindsey Lisalda won the 2021 Faculty Award of the Association of Women Faculty. More details can be found here.
Integration at the Wallops Flight Facility
We traveled from St. Louis to the Wallops Flight Facility on Oct. 31, 2021 to integrate the X- ray polarimeter and shield into the telescope and gondola. The integration will take three weeks. The first week focuses in mounting the detector and shield and testing their functionality. The second week will focus on the computer […]
Thermal/vacuum tests at Palestine, TX
The XL-Calibur team traveled to the Colombia Scientific Ballooning Facility in Palestine, Texas in September, 2021 to test the detector at low pressures and at the extreme temperatures that the team will encounter during its ascent, its stratospheric flight, and its descent.
Featured in WashU’s Ampersand
For our recent appearance in WashU news, click the link below! https://artsci.wustl.edu/ampersand/xl-calibur-telescope-examine-most-extreme-objects-universe-black-holes-and-neutron-stars