 | SBI on a hang test. |
 | SBI on a hang test. |
 | SBI on a hang test. |
 | SBI solar array. |
 | SBI's telescope. |
 | Mark arrives. |
 | Galadriel with a decoy mouse. |
 | Gaelen works on BLAST's new CCD camera. |
 | Mark contemplates a potential liquid nitrogen container. |
 | Tiny Tim arrives to pick up BLAST. |
 | Tiny Tim arrives to pick up BLAST. |
 | Tiny Tim arrives to pick up BLAST. |
 | Tiny Tim arrives to pick up BLAST. |
 | A TDRSS antenna on top of a ladder to get better reception with the gondola. |
 | Extracting BLAST. |
 | Going out for the hang test. |
 | Going out for the hang test. |
 | Going out for the hang test. |
 | Watching Tim roll by. |
 | Setting up for the hangtest. |
 | The SIP solar array skirt arrives. |
 | Frank and Victor tie some "reins" on the gondola. |
 | Setting up for the hang test. |
 | Setting up for the hang test. |
 | Waiting to attach the SIP solar array. |
 | Tim. |
 | The BLAST hangtest. |
 | BLAST with SIP solar array and ballast hopper attached. |
 | Anita's... I mean BLAST's ballast hopper. |
 | BLAST's groundstation computer (lambda) installed in the OCC. This computer will stay here while we go to Antarctica and act as a receiver to the data transmitted from BLAST over Antarctica via the TDRSS satellite network to North America. |
 | Heading back in after the hang test. |
 | Coming back inside after the hang test. |
 | Our three gallons of Sunnyside brand Acetone finally arrives. So refreshing! |
 | Coming back inside after the hang test. |
 | We ordered some 5/16" grade 8 bolts from McMaster-Carr which arrived along with this bit of randomness: a very mangled brass number six torx-head screw. I have this theory that McMaster-Carr doesn't have garbage removal at their warehouses. They just ship their trash to customers who assume it's part of their eccentric packaging system... |
 | Coming back inside after the hang test. |
 | Coming back inside after the hang test. |
 | Coming back inside after the hang test. |
 | BLAST on the scale: 4344 pounds. |
 | Victor removes the telescope from the scale. |
 | Calculations on my arm. |
 | Removing one of the solar arrays. |
 | The primary arrives. |
 | Chris uncables the LDB antennas. |
 | Uncovering the primary. |
 | The primary covered in plastic and cotton. |
 | Mark reflecting on the primary. |
 | Examining the mirror. |
 | Examining the mirror. |
 | The lines of LDB antennas: from right TDRSS, Iridum, three GPS and another Iridum. |
 | Attaching the secondary mirror. |
 | Attaching the secondary mirror. |
 | Attaching the secondary mirror. |
 | Dismantling the sun shields. |
 | Removing the cryostat. |