Who Built Suzaku?
The Japanese side of the project is led by people at the
Institute of Space and Astronautical Sciences, or ISAS.
ISAS is now part of the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency,
or JAXA.
They have provided the rocket to launch Suzaku
into orbit, for example. ISAS is also taking care
of sending commands up to Suzaku and
receiving data back.
Scientists at ISAS and various universities around Japan
have also worked on the scientific instruments on Suzaku.
One of the instruments, HXD, was built entirely in Japan. For the
other instruments, they teamed up with researchers in the US.
To learn more about the instruments, see our
Most of the Americans on the project work at NASA's Goddard Space
Flight Center (GSFC), located in Greenbelt, Maryland, just outside
Washington, DC. The scientists and engineers at GSFC played key
roles in building the XRS and XRTs. Also, scientists at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) contributed to the
XIS instrument.
To find out how the team at NASA built the XRS and
XRT instruments, how they work together with their colleagues in
Japan, and what is happening to the XRS in Japan, try:
