{"id":5738,"date":"2012-07-19T12:09:22","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T16:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galadriel.astro.utoronto.ca\/ballast\/?p=5738"},"modified":"2012-07-19T12:09:37","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T16:09:37","slug":"helium-again-text-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/?p=5738","title":{"rendered":"Helium Again, Text Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday we filled with liquid helium, so should have a functioning instrument again on the weekend. In other news: Barth (who has yet to appear in a photograph) and Joseph sorted out some data downlink errors, Tyr was finishing the solar panel holders, Natalie and Brad debugged a misbehaving star camera, Greg was polishing his window shutter control, Tristan and Enzo invented a new method for dealing with data issues from the last flight, Elio babysat the cooling cryostat, Mark installed linux on his computer before he left Palestine, and Laura and I continued to upgrade the code\u00e2\u20ac\u201dplus we made delicious vegan chili and cornbread, and probably people did a lot of things I’m not aware of, or can’t express in a single (though shockingly run-on) sentence.<\/p>\n