National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Juli sent over this great picture today. She and my buddy Kevin are at ISAS installing and testing the electronic boxes on the spacecraft. They're testing the power generation of the spacecraft solar panels with simulated sunlight. These are megawatt lamps! Awesome!

Today they changed over to the “RTS” calibration system. This provides a whole bunch of x-ray lines for me to see. So now I'm looking at x-rays ranging from 2 keV to 12 kev. I should be able to see below 2 kev, but they'll test for that later.