[P-EM15] Dynamics of Magnetosphere and Ionosphere

[PEM15-18] Status of the GEO-X (Geospace X-ray imager) mission

*Yuichiro Ezoe¹, Ryu Funase^2,3, Harunori Nagata⁴, Yoshizumi Miyoshi⁵, Hiroshi Nakajima⁶, Ikuyuki Mitsuishi⁵, Ryota Fuse³, Yosuke Kawabata³, Ralf Boden², Shintaro Nakashima², Landon Kamps⁷, Yuki Nobuhara⁷, Shota Hirai⁷, Kumi Ishikawa¹, Masaki Numazawa¹, Yuki Sato⁶, Koichi Hagino³, Yosuke Matsumoto⁸, Keisuke Hosokawa⁹, Daiki Ishi², Munetaka Ueno², Atsushi Yamazaki², Hiroshi Hasegawa², Makoto Mita², Takefumi Mitani², Masaki Fujimoto², Yasuhiro Kawakatsu², Takahiro Iwata², Tomokage Yoneyama¹⁰, Kazuhisa Mitsuda¹¹, Junko Hiraga¹², Satoshi Kasahara³, Hiroyuki Koizumi³, Hironori Sahara¹, Yoshiaki Kanamori¹³, Kohei Morishita¹⁴ (1.Tokyo Metropolitan University, 2.ISAS/JAXA, 3.University of Tokyo, 4.Hokkaido University, 5.Nagoya University, 6.Kanto Gakuin University, 7.Letara Ltd., 8.Chiba University, 9.The University of Electro-Communications, 10.Chuo University, 11.KEK, 12.Kwansei Gakuin University, 13.Tohoku University, 14.Kyushu University)

Keywords:Magnetosphere, Global Imaging, X-ray

Understanding of response of the Earth's magnetosphere to solar wind, is crucial for planetary and space science, as well as astrophysics and space weather. We are developing a small satellite GEO-X (GEOspace X-ray imager) aiming global imaging of the Earth's magnetosphere in X-rays. In this paper, we present development status of spacecraft and payload using cutting edge technologies and expected science results.