An engineer checks ICESat-2's box structure, shortly after its arrival in a NASA clean room in May. Over the next two years, engineers and technicians will attach electronics, optics, lasers, a telescope and more to the box, testing its function at each step.
An engineer checks ICESat-2’s box structure, shortly after its arrival in a NASA clean room in May 2014. Over the next two years, engineers and technicians will attach electronics, optics, lasers, a telescope and more to the box, testing its function at each step.
Credits: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Kate Ramsayer