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