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2025

MinXSS-1 and -2 v5.0.0 and DAXSS v3.0.0 data released

March 18

It’s release day again! Data from 3 missions has been reprocessed and posted. You can see all the updates and improvements we’ve made to the data. The two biggest highlights are updates to deadtime correction and big improvements to our netCDF data files. You can find all of the new data over on the data page. All of […]

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2024

AAS Nova featured a highlight article on new study investigating Solar Flare Onsets using MinXSS-3 (DAXSS) Data

September 25, 2024

AAS Nova, a platform of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) that highlights some of the most interesting recent results published in AAS peer-reviewed journals, featured an article about the study of Solar Flare Onsets using new data from the LASP-built MinXSS-3 instrument (also called DAXSS). Full article here: https://aasnova.org/2024/09/18/watching-solar-flares-heat-up/ Plain-Language Summary: Solar flares are characterized […]

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2022

MinXSS v4.0.0 and DAXSS v2.0.0 data released

August 26, 2022

It’s release day again! In addition to all the updates and improvements we’ve made to the data you’ve seen before, this is also the first official release of DAXSS level 2 and 3 data, which are 1 minute, 1 hour, and 1 day time averages of the data. INSPIRESat-1 (the satellite that hosts DAXSS) launched […]

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INSPIRESat-1/DAXSS data release version 2.0 and new python analysis tools

July 28, 2022

The Miniature X-Ray Solar Spectrometer 3, or MinXSS-3, successfully launched on the INSPIRESat-1small satellite on February 14, 2022 on the Indian Space Research Organization’s Polar Satellite LaunchVehicle (PSLV-C52). Also known as the Dual Aperture X-ray Solar Spectrometer, or DAXSS, MinXSS-3 isthe third in the series of NASA-funded MinXSS instruments. DAXSS observes the solar soft X-ray […]

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INSPIRESat-1/DAXSS (AKA MinXSS-3) Level 1 data available

June 6, 2022

INSPIRESat-1 launched on 2022-02-14 into a sun-synchronous, dawn-dusk orbit. That means that it almost never experiences orbit eclipse and therefore has an almost entirely uninterrupted view of the sun. Even in the <4 months since launch, hundreds of solar flares have been observed. Not all of the DAXSS data for them have been downlinked yet, […]

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MinXSS-3 (INSPIRESat-1) first light!

March 7, 2022
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INSPIRESat-1/MinXSS-3 launched and working!

February 14, 2022
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MinXSS-3 (AKA INSPIRESat-1) launch upcoming: 2022-02-14 00:29 UTC

February 8, 2022
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MinXSS-2 data released and MinXSS-1 updated to v3.1.0

January 25, 2022
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2020

MinXSS-1 v2.0.0 data archive released

June 5, 2020
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