The Soft X-ray Imager (SXI) on the SMILE Mission

Steven Sembay1, Graziella Branduardi-Raymont2, Paul Drumm3, C Philippe Escoubet4, Georgi Genov5, Jason Gow6, David Hall6, Andrew Holland6, Rene Hudec7, J. M. Mas-Hesse8, Thomas Kennedy2, Kip D Kuntz9, Rumi Nakamura10, Nikolai Ostgaard11, Roland Ottensamer12, Walfried Raab4, Andrew Read3, Denis Rebuffat4, Jens Romstedt13, Emile Schyns14, David G Sibeck15, Agoston Srp16, Manfred Steller10, Tianran Sun17, Jon M Sykes3, Julian Thornhill3, Brian Walsh18, David Walton2, Chi Wang17, Fei Wei17, Arno Wielders4 and Ian Carl Whittaker3, (1)University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1, United Kingdom, (2)University College London, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, London, United Kingdom, (3)University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom, (4)European Space Research and Technology Centre, Noordwijk Zh, Netherlands, (5)University of Bergen, Birkeland Centre for Space Science, Bergen, Norway, (6)Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, (7)Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic, (8)CAB-INTA/CSIC, Madrid, Spain, (9)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States, (10)Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, (11)University of Bergen, Department of Physics and Technology, Bergen, Norway, (12)University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, (13)European Space Research and Technology Centre, Future Missions Office (SRE-F), Noordwijk, Netherlands, (14)Photonis SAS, Brive, France, (15)NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (16)C3S, Budapest, Hungary, (17)NSSC National Space Science Center, CAS, Beijing, China, (18)Boston University, Boston, MA, United States