I spent the week before last in Princeton installing the housekeeping system for the flight cryostat. Once things started working, I took a photography break and explored the highbay a little.
Old Housekeeping System
New Housekeeping
Only slightly less of a rats nest
Temperatures
Data from the new housekeeping system
Group Photo
Team Princeton, plus two guests. And Spider!
Flanges
To eventually be covered in connectors
Elevation Drive
Made in Iceland
Strapped
Ratchet straps are another important part of the elevation drive
Spider Wants You!
Yes, I know I make this refeference a lot.
Spider's Best Side
Objecively determined to be most visually appealing
Six Shooter Telescope
View of Spider's six- (seven- ?) shooter configuration
Telescope Ports
Though the almunum covers make them somewhat ineffective for now
Spider Stand
335lbs
Special Procedure
Reclamation System
For helium boil-off
Gas Bladder
Cynthia indicates the reclamation system's gas bladder. By poking
Plugs and Pipes
Forklift
Pipes
Wall Pipes
Fuzzynormous Penguin!
Much larger than a parasaurolophus (?)
Telescope in (on) a Box
Spider's very loud neighbour: ABS (Atacama B-mode Search)
Behind ABS
Behind ABS Again
Once more
ABS
The business end
Doorway
To the lab beneath the telescope
Big Magnet
Warning. High magnetic fields
Peanut Gallery
At the end of the day, I spend time watching a group that's itself watching work wrap up
From Above
At the end of the day
Sad High Five
For reasons I don't recall
Liquid Helium
Lots of it. Or at least capacity to potentially have lots of it
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