<\/a>Oomph embiggener <\/div>
For embiggening oomph (of our power system)<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Ready to roll out <\/div>
With our fake solar panels installed<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Bryce, up close <\/div>
One of our undergrads gets pulled into my reality distortion field<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Door's open, time to go <\/div>
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<\/a>Power cart <\/div>
We need to keep our system powered to preserve the non-chargeable batteries used for a one-night flight<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Getting ready to detach the crane <\/div>
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<\/a>Rolling out <\/div>
On BIT's casters<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Electronics checks <\/div>
CSBF elctronics techs and riggers gather to check their systems<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>BIT is hot! <\/div>
Too hot. Susan and Michael help give our precious electronics some shade<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Big Bill approaching <\/div>
The launch vehicle (and mobile crane) "Big Bill" comes to pick us up<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Installing the ballast hopper and crush pads <\/div>
The pads are designed to get wrecked when we land, instead of something more important<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Testing a ballast drop <\/div>
Dropping steel shot as ballast gives us a boost to rise quickly through the tropopause<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Further assembly <\/div>
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<\/a>Gathering around <\/div>
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It’s been almost a year since the disappointing summer\/fall of not launching SuperBIT in 2017. I have recovered enough to finally post the photos. We’re also in the field with SuperBIT getting ready to launch again, and I don’t want to get lapped. Plus I’m being pestered\/motivated to share these for documentation purposes. On June 8, 2017 We did our pre-flight compatibility test. This means rolling out the highbay as though we would launch and putting everything together. Then we test our system and the CSBF antennas and commanding, and we roll back inside. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6567"}],"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=6567"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6569,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6567\/revisions\/6569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}