| 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. |