Invited Article: First flight in space of a wide-field-of-view soft x-ray imager using lobster-eye optics: Instrument description and initial flight results.

Thanks to the Wallops Flight Facility and White Sands Missile Range personnel who supported the DXL mission, including DXL/STORM vibration testing, and were so generally helpful for DXL/STORM. Special thanks to Paul Rozmarynowski for mechanical design support, Kenneth Simms for assembly support, and Norman Dobson for GSE support. Also thanks to Steve Brown in the GSFC radiation facility for support for the proton beam testing and to Dan McCammon for pointing out useful references. The flight instrument development described in this paper was funded through the Planetary, Heliophysics, and Astrophysics Divisions at GSFC through Goddard’s Internal Research and Development (IRAD) program. D.K. acknowledges financial support for her activity through the program “Soleil Héliosphère Magnétosphère” of the French space agency CNES and the National Program “Physique Chimie du Milieu Interstellaire” of the Institut National des Sciences de l’Univers (INSU).