page_title: Lynx X-ray Observatory
section_title: Mission design & payload
hierarchical_section_title: Lynx X-ray Observatory / Mission design & payload
caption_attribution_description: English: A figure detailing the spacecraft and payload of the Lynx X-ray Observatory Mission Concept
context_page_description: The Lynx X-ray Observatory is a NASA-funded Large Mission Concept Study commissioned as part of the National Academy of Sciences 2020 Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey. The concept study phase is complete as of August 2019, and the Lynx final report has been submitted to the Decadal Survey for prioritization. If launched, Lynx would be the most powerful X-ray observatory constructed to date, enabling order-of-magnitude advances in capability over the current Chandra X-ray Observatory and XMM-Newton space telescopes.
caption: The Lynx Spacecraft draws on heritage from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, while flying a vastly more powerful X-ray Mirror Assembly and three scientific instruments.
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