<\/a>Mathew poses with BIT <\/div>
For what could have been the last time<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Richard perfroms some much-needed brain surgery <\/div>
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<\/a>Ready to leave <\/div>
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<\/a>Changing cranes <\/div>
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<\/a>Figurehead\/handle <\/div>
Multi-purpose<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Leaving the highbay <\/div>
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<\/a>More changing cranes <\/div>
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<\/a>Joe on top <\/div>
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<\/a>Looking on <\/div>
Distortedly<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Installing fake solar panels <\/div>
No power needed, but want to check that having extra mass\/sail is okay<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Final balance check <\/div>
With everything installed<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Finished <\/div>
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<\/a>Group photo! <\/div>
Obligatory<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>On the move <\/div>
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<\/a>BIT wrangler <\/div>
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<\/a>The crane <\/div>
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<\/a>Hanging out <\/div>
Waiting for weather confirmation, before proceeding<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Checking on pre-launch power connection <\/div>
Prevents non-chargeable batteries from draining<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>BT, ready to fly <\/div>
And posing for a photo<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>The professors <\/div>
Barth, Bill, and Richard<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Photo op: Richard <\/div>
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<\/a>Photo op: Javier <\/div>
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<\/a>Photo op: John <\/div>
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<\/a>Del, our CSBF engineer <\/div>
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<\/a>On the move again <\/div>
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<\/a>Heading to the pad <\/div>
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<\/a>The pad <\/div>
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<\/a>Later. Waiting. <\/div>
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<\/a>Sad return <\/div>
After weather was deemed too risky to proceed.<\/div><\/div>
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Friday was a marginal launch opportunity. We arrived a little before noon to get everything ready and do some “final” systems checks. Excitement and hopes were high, group photos were taken, I’s dotted and T’s crossed. We proceeded as far as taking BIT out to the launch pad, hoping for a safe gap in the weather. Sadly, there was too much chance of a storm to risk laying out the balloon and proceeding with launch. Late in they day, BIT was brought back to the highbay. To try again another day. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6544"}],"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=6544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6545,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6544\/revisions\/6545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}