(Backlog from November 10-17)
Last week didn’t have time for posting, but I continued to take photos of interesting activity in the highbay. Here’s some of what was going on.
Lifting partly assembled gondola
To install the SIP
Installing CSBF's Support Instrumentation Package
Which allows us to communicate with the payload during flight
Installed SIP
Fun with little hands
Cynthia tests whether she can replace parts from an installed telescope insert
Mohawk time!
John H jumps on the bandwagon
John R started the trend
Ziggy gets a normal haircut
John removes his mohawk the next morning
Ivan saws a steel tube
Becase
Straight string
Confirming that the tube has matched hole clocking
SPIDER shirt at work
Ivan glues the replacement steel insert
Glue
Ride back to town on Ivan (the Terrabus)
Tube curing
Using a hacked-together cover on the vacuum oven
Hanging out with the gondola
Baffle test fit
Glasses repair
Required after a volleyball intersected with my face
Barth wrestles with the gondola
Tightening bolts
On a fully assembled gondola
Ed and the vacuum window tester
The flight computer insides
Cable routing
Sasha and I are both very OCD about very neat cable routing
Don opens computers
To make sure nothing rattled loose during shipping
Best seat in the house
Johanna makes things shiny
Starting with the suspension cables (to keep them safe from the sun)
Pivot controller next
Shiny things are good
Jamil disassembles the computer box
For a through cleaning after metal shavings were discovered inside
Spacer installation
On the cable-suspension turnbuckle
Sasha likes having her picture taken
Anne checks for leaks
By spritzing helium around vacuum flanges
Ed does the easy part
Watching to see if the number on the leak checker changes
Nat's hat
Formerly a raccoon
Jamil remounts the extra clean computer box
Arm wrestling continues
Jamil over Don
Anne struggles mightily against Jeff
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