I ventured into the west highbay yesterday to check out mounting of Juan and Natalie’s GPS antenna boom. While there I noticed a bunch of other CSBF antennas also mounted to the sun shields. While I was busy helping Natalie and taking photos, the CSBF folks started to install our SIP. Juan was there to catch pictures of the process (stay tuned for these).
Jeff had also arrived to join team noise for a week. I’m told he and Enzo discovered that the JFET power supplies are working very well as oscillating noise injectors. Elio stayed late to modify boards.
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- Mr Wobbles. The sad old chair that only I love, so nobody will steal it from me
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- We have a group meeting in the morning. There’s a lot of us
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- Juan and Natalie erect the antenna boom
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- For bolting into its blocks, Natalie finds it easier to work alone
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- And seems to really enjoy it
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- Juan observes the final attachment stages
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- Mount for the high gain TDRSS antenna
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- A CSBF GPS antenna
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- One of a pair
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- Iridium antenna, on what used to be the high gain mount
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- The other Iridium antenna
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- Omnidirectional TDRSS, still nice and spirally
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- This one is slightly shorter than before
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- In addition to their two regular GPS antennas, CSBF has another four on this cross to get attitude (to aim TDRSS HGA)
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- “The Manifold”, a bunch of valves for ground use of the cryostat
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- More manifold
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- Natalie mounts the Seppy Antennas. There are 9 (NINE!) GPS antennas on the top of BLAST-Pol
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- Seppy antenna all spirally wired up at the end of the boom
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- Andrei’s outdoor sun sensor testing station
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- Readout and actuation for the sun sensor testing
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- ROCC9 (Remote Operations Control Center #9) (plus Matt)
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- Computers in rack in travel case. Pretty Sweet
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