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The Goddard Astro-E2 team has shipped the Helium Insert part of the XRS on March 11. It travelled by land to New York's John F. Kennedy airport. There it was loaded onto a Japanese cargo plane, and flown to Tokyo's Narita International Airport (via Anchorage, Alaska). The Insert then travelled by truck to Sumitomo Heavy Industries in Niihama. It arrived there safely, and was successfully installed into the Neon Dewar --- that's the part of the XRS instrument that was the responsibility of the Japanese half of the team.

The XRS Insert as it is installed into the Neon Dewar. Click on the image to see a larger version.

The Insert installation into the Neon Dewar went very well. The lifts went well, and everyone was very happy that the insert fit, reported the Mechanical Team.

The entire team - the Americans and the Japanese - celebrated together.

Over the next few months, the complete XRS will be checked out at Niihama, before being shipped to ISAS near Tokyo to be integrated with the rest of the spacecraft in September.

The Suzaku Learning Center is a service of the High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC), within the Astrophysics Scicence Division (ASD) at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

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