the high energy cosmic-radiation detection (herd) facility is one of several space astronomy payloads of the cosmic light house program onboard china's space station, which is planned for operation starting around 2020 for about 10 years. beam test with a herd prototype, to verify the herd specifications and the reading out method of wavelength shifting fiber and image intensified ccd, was taken at cern sps in november, 2015. the prototype is composed of an array of 5∗5∗10 lyso crystals, which is 1/40th of the scale of herd calorimeter. experimental results on the performances of the calorimeter are discussed. © 2016 spie.