Yesterday we went outside, briefly. The plan was to get carried over to the "dance floor" (a wooden pad, placed away from the buildings) to test pointing sensors and telemetry. We were also going out to make room for Super-TIGER to go out on the deck. The weather’s plan was to be potentially windy, and because there wasn’t a good reason to press the issue, we conceded. Also, unsurprisingly, a very effective way to make the highbay freezing cold is to open the main front doors for more than a few seconds. Because some confusion has been expressed to me in the past: The Boss is the large red and black launch vehicle. The bossiest Boss that ever bossed. […]
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I the photos speek for them selves. […]
Yesterday, Natalie was finishing the SBSC (Spider Bore-sight Star Camera, which is being test-flown as a roll sensor). I got some photos now, since eventually it will get boxed in foam. Otherwise, a lot of the day was spent sorting out the solar panels, but since I as working, I don’t have many photos. After dinner, Barth, Juan, Mark, Tristan, and I went for a walk around Arrival Heights. This takes you all around the coast on one side of town, and up into the hills where it gets pretty windy. Pretty scenic, and a good evening dose of outdoors. […]
My flight brought be down just in time for the base’s Saturday Thanksgiving feast (because in McMurdo, all celebrations take place on Saturday). But, naturally, we didn’t take the day off. Instead we were busy preparing for Monday, on which we plan to go out to the dance floor to test pointing sensors. (And in preparation for which everyone else had been working very hard prior to my arrival.) I’m glad to be back at LDB. […]
Perfectly on schedule (somehow), my flight to the ice took place yesterday. I’m back! (And no longer feeling a little left out, as the last to arrive.) We’ll see if maybe Tristan wants to continue making posts. More photos are better. […]
Since leaving Princeton and Spider, I have been heading down to Antarctica for the BLAST-Pol flight campaign (on which Tristan has 
I think we have hit the stage in the high bay where we are settling into a good working grove and getting a little goofy. Then again maybe I’m just taking goofy pictures. […]
We bunch of stuff happened yesterday so I’m just posting the photos with info in the titles. To sum up, Nat scanned the gondola around a bunch orthoganalizing the gyros, Juan started building his side scope, we mounted the cryostat on the gondola, and much silliness occurred. […]
I have been working late a lot this last week and we got some amazing views driving back from LDB late at night. These where all take between 11:00 and 11:30 when the sun was behind some clouds and giving amazing light. You also get this amazing effect of snow being blown across the ground and looking like water flowing. […]
So I haven’t posted for a couple days because I have been running around doing a bunch of cryostat tests. Well everything checked out and we are getting ready to mount the cryostat on the gondola, so I have a few minutes to post things. […]