![Click to enlarge](img/th_4380.jpg) | SBI on a hang test. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4381.jpg) | SBI on a hang test. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4382.jpg) | SBI on a hang test. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4383.jpg) | SBI solar array. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4384.jpg) | SBI's telescope. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4385.jpg) | Mark arrives. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4386.jpg) | Galadriel with a decoy mouse. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4387.jpg) | Gaelen works on BLAST's new CCD camera. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4388.jpg) | Mark contemplates a potential liquid nitrogen container. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4389.jpg) | Tiny Tim arrives to pick up BLAST. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4390.jpg) | Tiny Tim arrives to pick up BLAST. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4391.jpg) | Tiny Tim arrives to pick up BLAST. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4392.jpg) | Tiny Tim arrives to pick up BLAST. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4393.jpg) | A TDRSS antenna on top of a ladder to get better reception with the gondola. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4394.jpg) | Extracting BLAST. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4395.jpg) | Going out for the hang test. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4396.jpg) | Going out for the hang test. |
![Click to play](img/th_4397.jpg) | Going out for the hang test. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4398.jpg) | Watching Tim roll by. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4399.jpg) | Setting up for the hangtest. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4400.jpg) | The SIP solar array skirt arrives. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4401.jpg) | Frank and Victor tie some "reins" on the gondola. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4402.jpg) | Setting up for the hang test. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4403.jpg) | Setting up for the hang test. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4404.jpg) | Waiting to attach the SIP solar array. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4405.jpg) | Tim. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4406.jpg) | The BLAST hangtest. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4407.jpg) | BLAST with SIP solar array and ballast hopper attached. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4408.jpg) | Anita's... I mean BLAST's ballast hopper. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4409.jpg) | 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. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4410.jpg) | Heading back in after the hang test. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4411.jpg) | Coming back inside after the hang test. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4412.jpg) | Our three gallons of Sunnyside brand Acetone finally arrives. So refreshing! |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4413.jpg) | Coming back inside after the hang test. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4414.jpg) | 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... |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4415.jpg) | Coming back inside after the hang test. |
![Click toplay](img/th_4416.jpg) | Coming back inside after the hang test. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4417.jpg) | Coming back inside after the hang test. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4419.jpg) | BLAST on the scale: 4344 pounds. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4420.jpg) | Victor removes the telescope from the scale. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4421.jpg) | Calculations on my arm. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4422.jpg) | Removing one of the solar arrays. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4423.jpg) | The primary arrives. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4424.jpg) | Chris uncables the LDB antennas. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4425.jpg) | Uncovering the primary. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4426.jpg) | The primary covered in plastic and cotton. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4427.jpg) | Mark reflecting on the primary. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4428.jpg) | Examining the mirror. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4429.jpg) | Examining the mirror. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4430.jpg) | The lines of LDB antennas: from right TDRSS, Iridum, three GPS and another Iridum. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4431.jpg) | Attaching the secondary mirror. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4432.jpg) | Attaching the secondary mirror. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4433.jpg) | Attaching the secondary mirror. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4434.jpg) | Dismantling the sun shields. |
![Click to enlarge](img/th_4435.jpg) | Removing the cryostat. |