SpIRIT Technology – HERMES-TP/SP
The HERMES instrument is a payload provided by the Italian Space Agency, consisting of an innovative X-ray detector and associated control electronics.
By measuring and tagging the arrival time of radiation events to sub-μs resolution, the data streams from multiple distributed detectors can be compared via cross-correlation techniques to ascertain the location on the sky/Earth of the radiation events.
By measuring and tagging the arrival time of radiation events to sub-μs resolution, the data streams from multiple distributed detectors can be compared via cross-correlation techniques to ascertain the location on the sky/Earth of the radiation events.
![The SpIRIT Spacecraft & Payloads](https://spirit.research.unimelb.edu.au/files/2022/07/spirit_subsystem_schematic_platform_HERMES.png)
![SpIRIT Logo](https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/spirit/files/2020/09/SpIRIT_logo_alpha_940x940-1.png)
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