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It is now time to register and make your travel plans for the August 20-22, 2008 Constellation-X Facility Science Team meeting. This meeting will be at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (on NASA property). BADGES ARE REQUIRED FOR ENTRY (so you must register). We anticipate starting at about 10AM on August 20th and ending by about 4PM on Friday, August 22nd.

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The Constellation-X Facility Science Team meeting will be held August 20-22 in Greenbelt, Maryland at Goddard Space Flight Center. Full details will be announced later.

Any foreign nationals please contact Sandy Barnes (Sandra.L.Barnes (at) nasa.gov) ASAP to get your badge for this meeting (please do this even if you are not 100% certain that you can make it).

The talks from the last Constellation-X FST meeting in Boulder are available from the project website. Please use the link below to access the presentation webpage.

+ February 2008 FST Meeting Page
+ Constellation-X Project website

The new Constellation-X Newsletter, The Constellation-X Observer, is now available online. The Observer provides information about the current state of the mission, including recent progress on instrumentation and other items of interest such as the Constellation-X science updates for the Decadal Survey.

The premier edition of the Constellation-X Observer is available either for download or to read online. Please use the links below to view the current edition.

+ The Constellation-X Observer website
+ Read the Winter 2007 edition online
+ Download the Winter 2007 edition (PDF)

The Agenda for the February 2008 FST meeting is now available for download on the Constellation-X Project Website.

+ February 2008 FST Meeting Agenda (PDF)
+ Constellation-X Project Webpage

The next Constellation-X Facility Science Team meeting will be Feb 21/22, 2008 in Boulder, CO, at the Boulderado hotel. This meeting is open to the scientific community, industry and other interested parties.

Travel and hotel arrangements should be made ASAP because the week of the February FST meeting is popular in the Denver area since it is school vacation (= skiing) week for many in the US. Hotel rooms are held at the reduced rate only until Jan 21.

Full details can be found here

+ FST meeting announcement with logistics information
+ Webster Cash's Boulder Travel information page

The restructured Facility Science Team and FST Science Panels have been announced. Please use the links below to see the new FST members and FST Science Panels:

+ FST member list
+ FST Science Panels

The Constellation-X Facility Science Team meeting will be held February 21-22, 2008 in Boulder, Colorado. Full details will be announced shortly.

The Constellation-X Facility Science Team is currently being restructured, and we would like to invite members of the community to participate. Please read this letter for details. The deadline for participation is November 30.

+ Link to the letter containing full details

Constellation-X is featured in an article by Rapetti and Allen on measuring dark energy via X-ray gas measurements in clusters of galaxies. This article appears in the astro-ph arXiv.

+ "The prospects for constraining dark energy with future X-ray cluster gas mass fraction measurements" on astro-ph
+ Constellation-X Science: Dark Energy

Constellation-X is highlighted in the article "Black holes and their environments" by Constellation-X scientists Jon Miller and Christopher Reynolds. The article appears in the August 2007 issue of Physics Today.

+ Article abstract
+ August Issue of Physics Today
+ Physics Today website

There is now an RSS feed available for the Constellation-X Announcements. The link for the feed and information on RSS can be found by following the links below.

+ RSS Feed
+ What is RSS?

The Constellation-X design has evolved as pre-phase A mission studies have matured and in response to increased costs in the launcher market, while at the same time maintaining the core science capabilities. See how the configuration has evolved on the Spacecraft Configuration page.

+ Constellation-X Spacecraft Configuration

"Constellation-X will usher in a rich period of discovery for WHIM studies", as described in today's astro-ph posting of the Annual Review of Astronomy & Astrophysics article by Joel Bregman on astro-ph today (arxiv:astro-ph/0706.1787).

Bregman's article, "The Search for the Missing Baryons at Low Redshift", details the current state of research and knowledge of one of Constellation-X's major science goals: Missing Baryons.

+ "The Search for the Missing Baryons at Low Redshift" on astro-ph
+ Annual Review of Astronomy & Astrophysics
+ Constellation-X Science: Missing Baryons

The Constellation-X presentation given at the National Academy of Sciences Study on "NASA's Beyond Einstein Program: An Architecture for Implementation" is available. Please use link below to access the presentations page directly.

+ Constellation-X Presentations (2006-2007)
+ National Academy of Sciences Study on "NASA's Beyond Einstein Program: An Architecture for Implementation"

The Top Level Requirements Document as updated by the Facility Science Team at the recent Dec 2006 FST meeting is now available.

+ Dowload Top Level Requirements Document (PDF)

Constellation-X scientist, Chris Reynolds, is quoted in a Washington Post article discussing black hole findings reported at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Seattle.

+ Read the entire article on the Washington Post website