<\/a>Liquid helium arrives! <\/div>
Cargo catch-up comforts concerned cryostat carers<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>We have a porch! <\/div>
In front of our building<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>The highbays at LDB <\/div>
We're in the far one.<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Rotating Spider <\/div>
To helium filling position<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Spider is heavy <\/div>
She takes a lot of people to rotate<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Final positioning <\/div>
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<\/a>First liquid helium transfer! <\/div>
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<\/a>What most of a liquid helium transfer looks like <\/div>
Waiting.. Featuring Scott in the background, acting as safety officer<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Obligatory group photo in front of Mount Erebus <\/div>
Obligatory bad time of day for lighting of this corrected by Jared<\/div><\/div><\/div>![The "prom photo" group photo \u2022 <a style="font-size:0.8em;" href="http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/27717602@N03\/52540652471\/" target="_blank">View on Flickr<\/a>](https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/52540652471_7000b1fa24_m.jpg "The \\"prom photo\\" group photo")
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<\/a>The "prom photo" group photo <\/div>
On a staircase<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>The Boss gets some exercise <\/div>
As the riggers prepare to simulate loads the launch vehicle will experience<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Sun shield structure starts <\/div>
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<\/a>Rearranging cryo vent lines <\/div>
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<\/a>Pinhole sun sensor, covered <\/div>
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<\/a>Susan prepared to glue on some gondola reinforcement <\/div>
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<\/a>Gluing <\/div>
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<\/a>Test fitting sun shield mounts <\/div>
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<\/a>Main telescope baffles <\/div>
And lucky unicorn head<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Flyby <\/div>
A Basler buzzes overhead, as they test balloon terminate electronics<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Onlookers <\/div>
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<\/a>Giving the pilots a tour <\/div>
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<\/a>Inside an MCC <\/div>
One of our detector readout computers<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Pressure ridges outside Scott Base <\/div>
And half our team departing on a tour<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Filling parts of the sun shields with foam <\/div>
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<\/a>Suren doesn't mess around with tiny knives for cutting foam <\/div>
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<\/a>Simon's joy ride <\/div>
He's determined to drive *all the things*. Here it's just a Mule to pick up a water container from the galley<\/div><\/div>
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With the arrival of our delayed November shipment of liquid helium, we were finally able to start cooling Spider down to her science operating temperatures. This process takes several days and some longs shifts. In parallel, work continues on setting up the gondola, pointing systems, ad sun shields. More and more Spider is starting to resemble an awesome functional payload. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6621"}],"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=6621"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6623,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6621\/revisions\/6623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}