After the Launch

After the launch, and the marathon of line-of-sight calibrations, we left LDB for the last time. Thanks to a bureaucratic mess-up, we only had some wet lab space available for our flight control shifts. Eventually we moved to an office and lost some space and our window, but gained ability to eat and drink and not smell like fish.

Happy new year!

Goodbye LDB

New Digs

Wet lab

Complete with sinks and seawater pipes

And smell of fish

Outside is the "Petting Zoo"

Full of touchable underwater crawlies

Petting zoo

Also with amorphous blobbies

Starfish eating fish head

Antarctic Toothfish

Creepy smile, teeth, antifreeze in blood, and almost 100lbs

Tower of data

To conserve space in the tiny room we moved to, so that EBEX could use the larger wet lab space

On shift

Looking at data, sending commands, hoping things keep working

Room to breathe

If only just. All six of us are around for some debugging