<\/a>Sunset over the launchpad <\/div>
With fresh bales of hay. I didn't make it back outside in time for the disc of the sun to remain up<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>New holes <\/div>
Expertly cut in the computer box<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Jamil cleans a computer <\/div>
Removing metal shavings around new holes. Computers don't get along with metal shavings<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Board mods <\/div>
on the hidden underside of the computer watchdog<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Helium <\/div>
Refrigerated liquid<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Jon inserts the fill tube into the dewar <\/div>
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<\/a>Becky feels for venting gas at the other end <\/div>
Low tech<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Venting gas <\/div>
And ice on the plumbing<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Jon watches <\/div>
Cryo people must be watchful<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Flingle 3 <\/div>
The latest 3D-printed creation. Still awesome (Plus "Come and Take It")<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Star camera baffles <\/div>
Uncovered, so ineffective at blocking light, but much more interesting to look at<\/div><\/div>
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Yesterday, Team Cryo started filling Theo with liquid helium. This is where the operation is most “cryogenically interesting”, which is a euphemism for mysterious and scary. Things that you don’t fully understand (especially now with several more telescopes installed), but can potentially cause a lot of damage. At least they happen slowly, so that you have lots of time to get tired. I’ve mostly been working on modifications to the flight computer box, with the help of Jamil and Ed. Due to somewhat high priority, I didn’t take as much time for photography as usual. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6222"}],"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=6222"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6226,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6222\/revisions\/6226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}