The dewar with the aperture cylinder and gate valve installed. The gate valve protects the filters and detectors until the spacecraft is safely in orbit, at which point it will be opened to let X-rays in. The Dewar is now complete and ready to be integrated onto the spacecraft.

Installing the last filter Flight Dewar and detectors Flight Dewar testing

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