Yesterday we got the biphase and star camera video (kind of) working over the air with the line-of-sight transmitters. Tristan took out his rotating chopper, so I took the chance to take pictures of it. Finally, there are the SIP installation pictures taken by Juan the day before.
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- ROCC9 has been replaced with ROCC10. We also have a TDRSS simulator, but I seem to have not photographed it
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- Chopper with no chopper blade. Can still see resistors for heating, and motor beneath
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- The front of the chopper is very black (especially in the submm). You can see the blade starting to cover the aperture
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- Rear of chopper, with bow-tie chopper blade
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- Bits synced. Green light is good. The bit sync locks into the over-the air biphase signal
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- The over the air video is fuzzy, but very usable. The ISC and OSC now have sweet descriptive desktop backgrounds
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- Seppy, mounted near one of the antennas
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- Juan glues a thermometer in place
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- Now to Juan’s photos from before. The SIP arrives on a fork
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- The SIP cage on the gondola, with the front bar removed to facilitate mounting
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- The SIP is slid off the fork and into place
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- The continuing insertion process, seen from the side
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- The outer frame’s beam lightweighting holes are handy for reaching to mounting points, and for taking pictures of people reaching to mount points
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- The in-between space. SIP on the bottom, reaction wheel on top
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- All the boxes mounted on the rear face. CSBF has nice pretty cable routing
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- Natalie and Barth talk about something. Natalie is managing to not drop her computer
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- Laura soldering
How neat! I swear I never know when awesome tighns like this are happeningin Lynchburg; annoying. Came across your blog off Kevin M’s. Good find!*Cute pic of you and the fam.