Lynx

Lynx (or Lynx X-ray Observatory, earlier X-ray Surveyor) is a NASA plan in the conceptual stages for a future X-ray telescope spacecraft, as a major program (Large Strategic Science Mission aka Flagship Mission) for launch in the 2030s. The plan is for a 3-meter Wolter telescope with a 10-meter focal length deployed at Lagrangian point L2. The aim is 50 times the sensitivity as Chandra X-ray Observatory, an angular resolution of 0.5 arcseconds and a spectral resolution with R at least 5,000. Instruments:

• HDXI - High Definition X-ray Imager.
• LXM - Lynx X-ray Microcalorimeter.
• XGS - X-ray Grating Spectrometer.