National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Dewar assembly and calibration at SHI in Niihama, Japan. This took place over the summer of 1999, before bringing the Dewar back up to ISAS for final assembly onto the spacecraft.

Checking that everything is okay after the Dewar vibration test

Keith Gendreau and Yoshinobu Ochi setting up the X-ray calibration source

Where's my IP address

Hmmm.... very difficult

It's just this little chromium switch, here

Collecting data on the computer

All done. Close the gate valve, HAL.

I see some coffee and I want to drink it black

Final Integration and Testing Photo Gallery Flight Dewar and detectors