On Wednesday morning Spider was a fully functional balloon gondola. By Thursday night it was a collection of pieces packed into a couple crates, and a series of tubes. Jamil, Juan, Natalie, and I wroked furiously in between to effect the transition.
By next week, these pieces will hopefully have found their way to Princeton, where they will be integrated with the flight cryostat and detector systems (which will replace the shipping container being used as inner frame).
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Elevation drive
Including defunct motor controller from a previously attempted design
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Elevation encoder and rocker arm
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The rotating star cameras
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Gryoscopes and star cameras
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Before disassembly
The rear of the gondola
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Before disassembly
Port side view
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Before disassembly
Starboard side view
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Busy joint
With carbon fiber tubes, suspension cable (on turnbuckle), and sun-shield-tensioning strap
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Another busy join
At the base
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Labels
To ease reassebly, everything is coloured and labeled
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Natalie takes the star camera apart
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Mostly-empty floor
With ACS remaining
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Reaction wheel
Once the floor is removed
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Elevation drive disassembly
Step one: support from of inner frame with a crane
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Partially disassembled scoop
So that the crate can move fully-vertical
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Removed elevation drive
With motor, servo lock, and gear box
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Elevation linear actuators
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Jamil letting the crate down
With the elevation drive removed, the crate is free to move (or fall!)
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Crate removal
It is then hung form its top, and lifted out of the gondola
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Crate on the ground
With pillow block and rocker arm still attached
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Juan takes the sun shields apart
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Reaction wheel spokes
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Spider in pieces
The cables
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Spider in pieces
All the electromechanical parts
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Spider in pieces
The bolts. With another similar bag for the sun shields
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Spider in pieces
The tubes and floor and cart
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Inside the crate
Juan rests. Soon we will pack this full of every bit of Spider that fits inside
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Coloured tape
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Partially packed
Chaos
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Partially packed
Order
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