| Marie applies the heat gun to shrink the plastic into place for the primary mirror window. |
| Running alignment tests with the cryostat. |
| Pumping down the Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FTS) in order to do bandpass measurements with it. |
| Compacting the pad. |
| Mark waves a nitrogen dewar in front of the mirror to see if the cryostat is aligned. |
| Mark doing alignment test while Marie screws down connectors on the ACS. Chris and Nathan are sitting under the gondola working on the SIP. |
| Jeff and Marie look for a response in the detectors while Mark moves the nitrogen bucket around the primary mirror. |
| The fruits of Gaelen's handiwork. Much nicer than the old method of throwing all the sockets in a big pile. |
| Marie, Gaelen and Matt remount the star cameras. |
| Mark provides a cold source for the gondola to scan. On the roof of the office behind him, you can see the red dot made by the laser mounted on the back of the secondary mirror, which gives us an idea of where the telescope is pointed. |
| BLAST looking out the door. |
| Jeff gets prepared to go up in the lift. |
| Jeff gets prepared to go up in the lift. |
| Jeff at the controls. |
| The telescope scans Jeff. |
| Jeff up in the air. |
| Mark checks the telescope's progress. |
| Jeff on the lift. |
| Jeff on the lift. |
| Marie gets a care package from her mother, which includes many tasty treats. |
| Marie gets a care package from her mother, which includes many tasty treats. |
| David contemplates a cut of lamb. |
| Barth talking to Sue in the hallway in Dagobert. |
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| (5080x1594, 9269.6 kb) A view of the balloon facility looking north from the pad. From left you can make out the model rocket, the Main Building, the Chapel, the Cathedral, the Basilica, and, on the far right, the rocket range tower. | |
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| (8201x1838, 15340 kb) A view of Esrange from Keops Hill looking from something like north to something like east. In the centre of the image is Radar Hill, with it's buildings and satellite dishes on top, and the road winding up to it. The balloon base is obscured behind it, but various other Esrange buildings and dishes can be seen strung out to the left of the Hill. | |