Astro-H/SXS Hardware and Calibration Team in 2014 ASD Annual Report

In July 2014, Japanese scientists and grad students joined GSFC staff for weeks worth of testing and calibration work on the Astro-H/SXS spacecraft/instrument.

This image was taken from a ten foot stepladder squeezed into their lab.

This image was published in the 2014 Astrophysics Science Division Annual Report (released summer 2015).

2014 ASD Annual Report Astro-H SXS
Astro-H SXS Team

Canon EOS 70D with EF-S 10-22mm at 18mm
1/80 at f/5.0 at ISO 1600