<\/a>Attempting to clean dead bugs out of the telescope <\/div>
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<\/a>Launch vehicle arrives <\/div>
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<\/a>MCC repairs <\/div>
What's an attempted launch without some electrical panic?<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Ready for pickup <\/div>
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<\/a>Joe fixes some tape on Iridium Pilot <\/div>
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<\/a>Big Bill <\/div>
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<\/a>Richard has steel toes and style <\/div>
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<\/a>Heading out <\/div>
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<\/a>John handles the power cart <\/div>
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<\/a>Outside <\/div>
And clouds<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>BIT in profile <\/div>
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<\/a>Joe hooks up the launch cables <\/div>
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<\/a>Launch pin <\/div>
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<\/a>Gondola wrangler <\/div>
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<\/a>Lower fake solar panels attached <\/div>
Shiny now, thanks to Barth and boredom<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Antennas all laid out <\/div>
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<\/a>Power from Big Bill <\/div>
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<\/a>BIT's back <\/div>
With GoPro sun shades, that Richard improves every day<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Piggy back <\/div>
Some local students are flying an experiment with us.<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Checking the final balance <\/div>
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<\/a>Taping some extra mass <\/div>
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<\/a>+7 kg <\/div>
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<\/a>BIT and BIT Bill from above <\/div>
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<\/a>Blue hats <\/div>
The cool kids get blue hats<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Javier looks over <\/div>
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<\/a>The launch pad awaits <\/div>
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<\/a>Gathering to roll out <\/div>
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<\/a>On the move <\/div>
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<\/a>Turning <\/div>
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<\/a>Wrestling with BIT <\/div>
And the wind<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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After a few days of launch cancelations early in the day, we made a serious attempt yesterday. It was the best day we’d had yet. And Big Bill, the launch vehicle from Fort Sumner, had been brought in for some tried and true reliability. However, after going through all the motions, and driving out to the launch pad, the winds didn’t die down enough. We had to cancel again. Today looks even better, and BIT is currently out on the pad. Fingers crossed. […]<\/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\/6549"}],"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=6549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6550,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6549\/revisions\/6550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}