Yesterday, Juan started making noticeable progress on his next mylarization project: the main sun shields. While a lot bigger than the scoop, they’re a bit easier due to having more planar surfaces. In cryostat land, beam maps started being made as the next step in the long line of calibrations and tests. This means Enzo and I got to play with the XY-stage.
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- Enzo sets up Enzo’s Eye (a mechanical shutter)
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- The cordoned-off beam map zone
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- Eccosorb baffle for the cryostat
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- Modified thermos full of liquid nitrogen: the cold source
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- The shutter chops the cold source on-off, the XY-stage moves it around
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- The get just the right height, The Book of Knowledge comes in handy. I knew I should bring it
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- Beam Map
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- Nick Sad
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- Juan. Deer in headlights look. I have that effect on people
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- New load tester for the solar panels. Very pretty
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- And the wiring behind. Not quite so pretty
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- Mylarization continues, on the “flags of Nepal” pieces
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- Blue foam used mylar support
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- Mark “punches” through one of the sheets (he cheated)
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- Juan goes loco
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- Nick doesn’t know Mark cheated. The mylar wins this round
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- “Seriosly guys, I can do it.” “Nick! Stop! You’ll break something! Mark cheated.”
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- If you know Lorenzo, you know he’s saying “Whoa, whoa, whoa!”
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- I get too close to Matt (too close to focus)
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- I don’t know how Laura isn’t as blurry as the rest of this, but it’s pretty cool
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- Elio works (though his reflection is lazy)
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- Scrap mylar from the scoop
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