The first two of Juan’s Spider joints to be delivered. Marvel at their glory! These are the tips, which live at the very front at the edge of a little scoop, and the shoulders, which live between the back joint and the cryostat joints on either side. Spider will be made out of 13 joints, […]
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Since BLAST arrived yesterday (where yesterday is last wednesday), it’s time to assemble it. This is the reaction wheel mounting process. Mounting the inner frame is far more interesting, but there are no pictures of that. Maybe next time. Or, rather, it arrived…last week. But today I got the pictures that Juan took (thanks Juan). I learned that big aluminum gondolas are hard to remove from trucks. The pictures tell a better story than I can. |
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