Astro-E2 What's New

• 2005-07-10 Successful launch of Astro-E2
• 2005-07-06 Delay of launch due to bad weather
• 2005-07-04 Low temperature helium top-off
• 2005-07-03 Rehearsal of the launch day
• 2005-07-01 Launcher set test
• 2005-06-29 Cool down of solid neon of X-ray spectrometer
• 2005-06-27 Move to launch tower
• 2005-06-24 Nose fairing was attached
• 2005-06-19 Connect Astro-E2 with 3rd-stage rocket
• 2005-06-16 Astro-E2 was moved to the clean booth, for connection with third-stage rocket
• 2005-06-15 Final inspection and maintenace of Astro-E2 satellite
• 2005-06-10 About Uchinoura Space Center (USC)
• 2005-06-01 Final spacecraft-level tests
• 2005-06-01 Change of Astro-E2 launch window
• 2005-05-26 Astro-E2 arrived at USC
• 2005-05-18 About Astro-E2 launch window
• 2005-05-18 Astro-E2 Arrived at Tsukuba Space Center
• 2005-05-17 Astro-E2 left ISAS
• 2005-05-13 All the tests at Sagamihara campus are finished
• 2005-04-11 Astro-E2 dressed up
• 2005-04-06 Detailed Spacecraft Function Test Performed
• 2005-03-17 Final Phase of Spacecraft Final I&T
• 2004-11-18 Delay of Astro-E2 Launch
• 2004-04-01 Final Spacecraft I&T started.
• 2003-12-01 1st Spacecraft I&T finished.
• 2003-11-12 4th Science Working Group Meeting was held.
• 2003-09-20 Status report on 1st Spacecraft I&T
• 2002-09-11 Report on 2nd Science Working Group Meeting
• 2001-12-11 1st Science Working Group Meeting was held.
• 2001-11-01 Start of the Astro-E2 project
• 2001-10-01 The Astro-E2 project started in the US.
• 2001-04-01 The Astro-E2 project started in Japan.
• 2000-04-11 Status Report
• 2000-02-10 Launch of Astro-E
• 2000-01-17 Desciption of Astro-E (press release) [PowerPoint]

ISAS/JAXA Department of High Energy Astrophysics