<\/a>Johanna modifies some boxes <\/div>
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<\/a>Pinhole sun sensors <\/div>
Sensing the sun<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Natalie is testing the PSSes <\/div>
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<\/a>A crack in the door proved insufficient <\/div>
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<\/a>Outside, they still didn't quite work right <\/div>
Not until later, at leaest<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Team Camo. Modeled by Jamil <\/div>
The day shift's colours<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Yes, those are safety goggles <\/div>
More of Team Camo<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Laika's on Team Red (the early shift) <\/div>
With her favourite people: Anne, Johanna, and myself<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Eyed dubiously <\/div>
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<\/a>Natalie demonstrates alternate styles <\/div>
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<\/a>Barth tries too <\/div>
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<\/a>More alternate styles <\/div>
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<\/a>Work proceeds <\/div>
Now with bandanas, which makes it more fun?<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Don <\/div>
Team Camo<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Anne returns with a modified FTS cover <\/div>
Team Red<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Laika's third frisbee (the previous two being chewed to bits) <\/div>
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<\/a>She plays a game not entirely dissimilar to fetch <\/div>
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<\/a>She truly enjoys these <\/div>
Far more than any other toy we've tried<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Running away <\/div>
A key part of whatever game she thinks she's playing<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Retrieved <\/div>
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<\/a>Sasha <\/div>
Team Camo. Being harrassed by a camera. Because she's the enemy<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Cold load for the FTS <\/div>
A styrofoam box, glued shut, full of mm-wave absorber, with a hole for liquid nitrogen<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Nitrogen filling funnel <\/div>
Courtesy of tractor supply store<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Making the cold load cold <\/div>
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<\/a>Another, potentially cold, load <\/div>
Covering the front of a telescope, for an optical efficiency test<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>FTS cover is still shiny <\/div>
Sean's reflection agrees<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Jamil fills water balloons <\/div>
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Yesterday was Jon’s brithday, so Anne planned a surprise water balloon fight for when he and the night shift arrived. And a special meal. We divided into teams by shift, and identified ourselves with bandanas: red for the early shift, camo for the day shift, and stars for the night shift. Laika joined the red team. She also got a new (replacement) toy, so I followed her with a camera for a while. After playing with her myself. The festivities were interrupted when Barth took a nasty fall (while strafing Sean with water balloons). He dislocated his shoulder, getting hurt a lot, but is expected to eventually make a full recovery. […]<\/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\/6257"}],"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=6257"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6260,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6257\/revisions\/6260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}