The purpose of today was to move all the things working in the Bemco chamber onto the gondola. We also had to fix some power system stuff, set up the gondola umbilicus, and the cryostat team opened it up for the usual post-shipping treatment (replace travel supports, and look for loose screws).
All day there was mild to ridiculous rain. Eventually a clogged-up sewer drain caused the highbay to flood in the cryostat area. The rigging crew was not happy. Nevertheless, we still had a barbecue in the wonderful shelter of “Building 30”. We did the food prep in the Operations Control Center’s lounge. The OCC is a really cool place.
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- The ACS and computers are mounted on the gondola again
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- Juan had to drill and tap a lot of holes for Helicoils on the inner frame tabs
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- The Trenches of Despair lack the true and complete despair that their Toronto counterpart has
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- Natalie probes a borked ethernet cable
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- Natalie takes a real close look at the computer box, probably for a lost bolt
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- Laura demonstrates the extreme usefulness of the forehead light
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- Laura dances as she tries to avoid the camera
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- The open cryostat is bagged to keep out foreign contaminants (grasshoppers, Mexicans, etc)
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- Forest of joints that will eventually build up the side-scoop
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- Shipping blankets barely contain the huge leak from a plugged up sewer drain
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- The Super Awesome Room, aka Operations Control Center (OCC)
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- Their ground station is way better than ours
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- more SAR/OCC
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- and more
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- Lambda: an ancient (in computer years) ground station computer originally used for Boomerang
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- Awesome shelter and not-at-all-flickery lights at “Building 30”
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- A good complement of veggies make up the vegan course at the barbecue
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- This is followed by a course of homemade burgers and sausages (even of the vegan variety)
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- Barth kept walking into my field. I have a lot of pictures like this.
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- Good Timesâ„¢ were had by all
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- Tristan and Matt and corn
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- The rain got really, REALLY strong. I like strong rain
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- Rain gets you wet
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- A highly effective tarp is tied down to cover the already-drenched barbecue
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- Natalie is wet, but happy!
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- Matt’s pretty wet too, and puts on a brave face to inspire the troops
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