CALET Image Gallery

The CALorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET) is an international mission funded by the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) in collaboration with the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and NASA. CALET is mounted on the Exposed Facility section of the Japanese Experiment Module on the International Space Station (near MAXI). The instruments record both cosmic rays and terrestrial radiation in low earth orbit

Launch and Integration

Movies

Launch of H-II Transfer Vehicle Kounotori5 (HTV5) ISS supply mission, including CALET, on 19 August, 2015. (MP4; HDTV; 151 MB)
Arrival of HTV5 at ISS (MP4; HDTV; 100.7 MB)

HTV5 launch with CALET onboard

Kounotori5 arriving at the ISS

ISS including CALET

CALET mounted on the Kibo-EF modeule

CALET as seen from the ISS

CALET mounted on the Kibo EF module on the ISS

CALET in the clean room prior to flight

Science

90% confidence upper limit on the GW151226 energy flux between 1–10 GeV in the time window T₀ -525 – +211 s. The thick cyan line shows the center of the field of view of CALET as it moved in this timeframe, with the plus symbol marking the center of the field of view at T₀. Green contours shown the matching localization significance map for GW151226 as reported by LIGO.