Yesterday BLAST went outside to test things that don’t work inside: sun sensors, GPS, and telemetry. Notably, this required Tiny Tim—everybody’s favourite behemoth of a launch vehicle.

Sun sensor flashlighting
To see if they're alive. One was not

The pinhole sun sensors
There's one more on the front

(Wo)Man lift
Joseph brought it in to attach his dGPS antenna. We got him to help with the solar panels too

Rearranged highbay
To make room for the lift

What's that rumbling, coming around the corner?

Tiny Tim!
And Vic. Vic rumbles less

Tiny Tim
Barely fitting in front of the highbay door

Entering the door
With its orange forky-bit

Cable adjustment
The original suspension cables were too long

Ladder hold
Elio holds the ladder as we swap from the crane to Tim

Correct attire
Pretty flawless, in fact

Fully attached to Tim

Wood drives

Coming outside

Lots of room to spare

Wrestling with the solar panels
To finish getting out the door. We learned from this and removed the bottom panel before coming inside

Outside

Laura and Elio guide into position

More guiding
In portrait

Vic directing
I think he's indicating "lower"

Mike and Larry wrestle the deadman into place

Sohisticated high-gain antenna pointing system

Empty highbay

Sun sensors
Sensing the sun!

Hanging out

Tiny Tim and BLAST-Pol

The front of BLAST-Pol

The side-ier front of BLAST-Pol

Tim's backside

Hook, pivot, antennas

Spy hole
We leave the door open a crack to see that BLAST hasn't blown away
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