The LOBSTER-ISS X-ray All-Sky Monitor  

G.W. Fraser and the LOBSTER-ISS team

Space Research Centre, Department of Physics and Astronomy, 
University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK.

LOBSTER-ISS is an imaging all-sky monitor, based on microchannel 
plate optics, which was proposed to ESA in January 2000 as an 
attached payload for the International Space Station and then
selected for an accommodation study in May 2000. This paper 
describes the current programatic status of LOBSTER-ISS, the 
potential science return of the mission in the field of AGN, 
together with the technical status of the instrument design, 
especially the MCP optics and microwell focal plane detectors