<\/a>Elevation drive <\/div>
Including defunct motor controller from a previously attempted design<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Elevation encoder and rocker arm <\/div>
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<\/a>The rotating star cameras <\/div>
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<\/a>Gryoscopes and star cameras <\/div>
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<\/a>Before disassembly <\/div>
The rear of the gondola<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Before disassembly <\/div>
Port side view<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Before disassembly <\/div>
Starboard side view<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Busy joint <\/div>
With carbon fiber tubes, suspension cable (on turnbuckle), and sun-shield-tensioning strap<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Another busy join <\/div>
At the base<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Labels <\/div>
To ease reassebly, everything is coloured and labeled<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Natalie takes the star camera apart <\/div>
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<\/a>Mostly-empty floor <\/div>
With ACS remaining<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Reaction wheel <\/div>
Once the floor is removed<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Elevation drive disassembly <\/div>
Step one: support from of inner frame with a crane<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Partially disassembled scoop <\/div>
So that the crate can move fully-vertical<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Removed elevation drive <\/div>
With motor, servo lock, and gear box<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Elevation linear actuators <\/div>
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<\/a>Jamil letting the crate down <\/div>
With the elevation drive removed, the crate is free to move (or fall!)<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Crate removal <\/div>
It is then hung form its top, and lifted out of the gondola<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Crate on the ground <\/div>
With pillow block and rocker arm still attached<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Juan takes the sun shields apart <\/div>
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<\/a>Reaction wheel spokes <\/div>
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<\/a>Spider in pieces <\/div>
The cables<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Spider in pieces <\/div>
All the electromechanical parts<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Spider in pieces <\/div>
The bolts. With another similar bag for the sun shields<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>![\"Spider](\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8465\/8128568781_94b3f5e8e8_n.jpg\" "\\"Spider")
On Wednesday morning Spider was a fully functional balloon gondola. By Thursday night it was a collection of pieces packed into a couple crates, and a series of tubes. Jamil, Juan, Natalie, and I wroked furiously in between to effect the transition. By next week, these pieces will hopefully have found their way to Princeton, where they will be integrated with the flight cryostat and detector systems (which will replace the shipping container being used as inner frame). […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5821"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5821"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5925,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5821\/revisions\/5925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}