Vic came by yesterday to give us our official weigh-in. This is one of several fabled portents that a balloon might launch soon. The scale read 4495lbs, but after subtracting CSBF’s electornics, and accounting for a few small changes before launch, we have about 4000lbs of “science weight”. Forty pounds heavier than expected. I blame lunch; lunch is too good.
I also took the opportunity to take a few photos of a shinier, whiter, silverier BLAST. This is the result of the weekend’s work of covering in mylar and white tape almost everything that will eventually need covering.
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- Box Head returns, in more formal attire with a silver box and black dress
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- Vic sets up the scale
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- Joe operates the crane
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- Joseph eyes Matt
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- 4495lbs
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- This is what 4000 pounds of science looks like
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- “fucked up 13Dec2010”. Lorenzo deals with a dead star camera hard drive
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- Reinstalling the new one. Late game repairs are scary
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- BLAST’s chin is now covered in aluminuzed mylar. The starboard side is now fully shielded
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- Under the chin
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- These two unpopulated triangles are all that remain unfilled (and they have to stay open for access to the cryostat)
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- View from the mezzanine
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- And one more, for good measure
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- BLAST hard hats
40lbs of white tape I can assure
What a beast! Good luck with the final prep…