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Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. -- As the sun rises, the Cape Canaveral Lighthouse is silhouetted against the...
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. -- A warm glow envelopes the Cape Canaveral Lighthouse as dawn breaks and a...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- From the podium, Douglas Comstock, director of NASA's Innovative Partnership Program,...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Workers help guide a refurbished lantern on top of the Cape Canaveral Lighthouse,...
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. -- A warm glow envelopes the Cape Canaveral Lighthouse as dawn breaks and a...
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. -- A warm glow envelopes the Cape Canaveral Lighthouse as dawn breaks over...
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. -- As the sun rises, the Cape Canaveral Lighthouse is silhouetted against the...
CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Fla. – This view looking up contrasts the black and white lighthouse at Cape...
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. -- As the sun rises, the Cape Canaveral Lighthouse is silhouetted against the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The U.S. Coast Guard operates the beacon of the historic Cape Canaveral Light as an active...
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. -- The lantern room of the Cape Canaveral Lighthouse, with its modern...
NMTSat is a student-built satellite built by undergraduate and graduates students primarily from New Mexico Tech....
CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Fla. – The Cape Canaveral Air Force Station lighthouse takes on a warm glow as...
NICER’s X-ray concentrator optics are inspected under a black light for dust and foreign object debris that could...
NICER engineer Steven Kenyon installs an X-ray detector onto the payload’s detector plate. The detectors are...
NICER engineer Steven Kenyon prepares seven of the 56 X-ray concentrators for installation in the NICER instrument....
Optics Lead Takashi Okajima prepares to align NICER’s X-ray optics. The payload’s 56 mirror assemblies concentrate...
Mysterious and fleeting, gamma-ray bursts come from galaxies so far away that they take billions of years to reach...
NICER Optics Lead Takashi Okajima installs one of NICER’s 56 X-ray “concentrators,” each consisting of 24 concentric...
A photo taken during the NICER range-of-motion test at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center shows the photographer’s...
The NICER payload, blanketed and waiting for launch in the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space...
Many of NICER’s 56 X-ray “concentrators” seen from within the instrument optical bench. Light reflected from the...
A NICER team member measures the focused optical power of each X-ray concentrator in a clean tent at NASA’s Goddard...
NICER team members Takashi Okajima, Yang Soong, and Steven Kenyon apply epoxy to the X-ray concentrator mounts after...