| Jeff fixes a funnel. |
| BLAST. |
| Barth and Brian Stilwell watch the removal of the mirror cover. |
| BLAST with the mirror cover removed. |
| Mark inspects the primary from a safe distance. |
| Marie takes a look in the mirror. |
| BLAST shows off its primary mirror. You can see the back of the secondary mirror with its characteristic triangle in front of the primary. The large circle reflected in the primary is a magnified view of the secondary mirror. Above that is an upside-down view of the first floor break room. |
| BLAST. Marie shown for size. |
| BLAST. Marie shown for size. |
| BLAST. Marie shown for size. |
| Don Bunt working in NSBF corner, which houses the workspace for the LDB and Electronics groups. |
| Cryo corner, uncharacteristically empty. |
| BLAST with flight code corner to the right, where everyone seems to be hanging out. The fourth corner of the highbay, to the left of BLAST doesn't really have a name, but since the only one who ever uses it is Marie when she's disassembling the star cameras or working on the batteries, why don't we call it Marie's corner? |
| The secondary mirror structure reflected in the primary. |
| The secondary mirror structure reflected in the primary. The triangular spaces were the mount points for the original secondary mirror. When BLAST acquired the mirror a new, bore-mounted secondary structure was built. The lowest triangle has been filled with one of Marco's aluminum covered foam triangles to help hide the triangle from the detectors. |
| Camera flash reflected in the secondary mirror structure. This is looking from behind the primary through the hole in the mirror at the secondary. Reflexions of the three triangular holes (one filled) can be clearly seen in the secondary. |
| A second, blurrier, shot of the same thing. Note the pinkish tinge to the primary which is here reflected by the secondary mirror. |
| The helium tankers being inspected by the riggers. |
| Jeff inspects the receiver backplane. |
| One of the receiver cards. |
| One of the bias generator cards. |
| More snow. Radar Hill is disappearing again. |
| More snow. Radar Hill is disappearing again. |
| Gaelen handicaps himself while lining up a shot. |
| Some of the liqueur left by the Maser collaboration. We're not sure where the flavour of broken cherry-kernels might be well-known. |
| The antenna outside Hotel Dagobert. |
| Tuesday noon. A radical change in the weather. |
| Working on Hercules. |
| Fifteen NSBF radios recharging. |
| Radar Hill completely unobscured for the first time in a week or so. |
| Hercules from the front. |
| From the starboard quarter. The launch vehicle looks very nice, and the NSBF crew appear to be pleased with it. |
| The front of the launch vehicle. |
| One of the sea crates reflected in a small lake which appeared overnight. |
| Hercules. |
| Matt walks along the Cathedral's roof line. |
| Gaelen climbing down the ladder from the roof. |
| Hercules. |
| The video camera on the roof of the Cathedral (our highbay) comes equipped with a window wiper. |
| Radar Hill and the pad from the roof of the Cathedral. |
| The Basilica. |
| The Chapel. |
| The model rocket located just inside the Esrange gate. |
| The rocket range. To give you an idea of how light it is at night, this picture was taken about an hour before midnight. |
| On the left with the large radar domes, is the Main Building. The low, long building to the right of it is Hotel Dagobert. |
| A panorama from the roof of the Cathedral. Uncharacteristically, this one comes with a commentary. |
| Barth walking back to the highbay. |
| Gaelen takes a panorama of the highbay from the second floor. |
| The cable tray to the balloon base. This picture is from about two hours after midnight. |