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Moxtek James Webb Telescope Press Release

February 18, 2021 – Moxtek is excited to celebrate the landing of the Perseverance rover in the Mars Jezero crater on February 18th 2021. This landing will be watched by many people around the world with anticipation as this new high‐tech rover is delivered to our red planet neighbor. Moxtek employees will also be anxiously watching as this rover, with three Moxtek products, prepares for a safe landing.
Please celebrate this landing with us on February 18th @ 1:55pm MST (Utah time).

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July 15, 2020 — MOXTEK is pleased to announce the launch of another component into space again. The launch of the Perseverance Mars rover will signify the 10th time that a Moxtek component has been launched into space flight. This rover, developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), includes seven important instruments intended to explore and seek evidence of past life on Mars. One of these instruments, the Planetary Instrument for X-ray Lithochemistry (PIXL), is a compact x-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometer mounted at the end of the rover’s robotic arm and is designed to provide accurate identification of the elemental composition of rock and soil on Mar’s surface. The PIXL system uses three Moxtek components including a miniature x-ray tube and two DuraBeryllium x-ray detector windows. NASA/JPL chose Moxtek x-ray windows because of their exceptional dependability in harsh and remote environments and chose the Moxtek x-ray tube because of its compact design, rigidity, and low-power consumption. The Moxtek x-ray tube was specifically designed to couple directly to an x-ray polycapillary optic, developed by X-ray Optical Systems (XOS), for the purpose of elemental mapping. Moxtek’s x-ray tube and window enable the PIXL system to provide increased spatial resolution and improved measurement sensitivity. The PIXL system will analyze samples at each test site to determine the abundance and distribution of various chemical elements. Learn more here.