| Danger Areas at Esrange. Not surprisingly, we work in number 6. |
| Hercules with BLAST in the background, sitting on the pad to calibrate our GPS. Barth and Marie happen to be out there, too. |
| BLAST on the pad. |
| Barth and Enzo's laptops on the gondola. One of them is running the GPS calibration software. |
| BLAST on the pad. |
| BLAST on the pad. |
| BLAST on the pad. |
| BLAST on the pad. |
| Transmissions from one of the star cameras. |
| Going out to turn BLAST around with the launch vehicle. |
| Going out to turn BLAST around with the launch vehicle. |
| The roughing pump with a water trap. |
| The water trap in action. |
| BLAST on the pad. |
| Preparing to bring BLAST back inside. Two of the riggers are setting up the ladder, since Victor needs it to reach the top of the gondola so he can hang the payload on the launch vehicle. |
| Jeff and Matt get a new helium cylinder. |
| Preparing to pick up. |
| BLAST hanging on the pin. |
| Getting ready to pick up. |
| Coming back inside. |
| Coming back inside. |
| Coming back inside. |
| Coming back inside. |
| Coming back inside. |
| Victor leads the gondola back inside. |
| Victor leads the gondola back inside. |
| Gaelen and Barth watch the procedure. |
| Coming back inside. |
| BLAST hanging. In the middle of the yellow bar at the top is the pin of the launch vehicle. The pin is through a hole in a white rectangular plate which is called the truck plate. Four cables then come down from the truck plate to a ring which is attached to the top of the pivot, the large white thing above the shelf on the top of the sun shield structure. On the pivot you can see three of the NSBF's GPS antennas (round white pucks with cables coming out the bottom). Our GPS antennas are mounted further out on the circular plates attached to booms at the top of the sun shields. To the left, half hidden by the sun shields, you can see a beighish cylinder, which is exterior housing for the TDRSS antenna. On the right is one of the conical Iridium antennas. |
| Mark and Jeff finish a helium transfer as BLAST rolls in. |
| The western extremity of the launch pad, still covered in snow. |
| Marie, Barth and Mark walk up the road to Radar Hill. |
| The view of Esrange from Radar Hill. |
| A short chat at the top of the hill. In case you have forgotten, this is where we watched the Maser 10 launch from. |
| Walking back down the hill. In the distance, to the northwest you can see some more snow. It didn't reach us however, which was nice. |
| Matt models the one of the star camera hats. |
| Marie models the other star camera hat. |
| The rocket at the Esrange gate. |
| Gaelen starts hauling the groceries out of the car. |
| Somehow, the backup fridge has turned into the beer and cheese fridge. |
| Mark tightens some of the bolts on the Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FTS). |
| Marie, Mark, Enzo and Jeff look at band-pass results from the FTS tests. |
| Marie refills the nitrogen dewar on the FTS. |
| Nitrogen boiling in the dewar. |
| Flags flapping in the breeze. From the left, the flags currently flying are: Swedish Space Corporation (SSC), European Space Agency (ESA), Europe, Sweden, United States, Canada, Mexico, Italy, United Kingdom. You can also see the top of the model rocket, just above the roof of Hotel Dilbert. |