Ed playing guitar in the Japanese House. | |
Looking through the dining room to the living room. | |
Refueling at the airport. | |
Refueling an Italian designed Sky Arrow. | |
The Sky Arrow taxiing. | |
The Sky Arrow taxiing. | |
The plane from the rear. | |
The plane from the front. | |
The liquid nitrogen arrives. | |
Me violating ladder safety rules. | |
Ed shakes down Enzo. | |
City Hall. | |
Matt models the new BLAST t-shirts. | |
The new BLAST summer fashions. | |
The cryostat pumping down. | |
The pivot up on blocks, awaiting hanging. | |
Marie and Chris mount the Sun Sensor. | |
Dave and Ed, working hard. | |
The GPS antenna test mount outside. Unfortunately, the antennas are on the other side of the plate, making it difficult to pick up GPS satellites. | |
The GPS box. | |
The GPS box in rave mode. | |
Chris covers some blue foam in aluminised mylar. Through a bizarre twist of fate, all our blue foam is actually pink. | |
Frodo at home in the P.V. | |
Testing the BLAST funhouse mirrors. | |
Someone finally turned the GPS array around the right way. Things work better now. | |
Jaspaul, Gaelen and Chris put blue foam and mylar on the scoop. | |
Working on the web page. | |
Time for some coffee! | |
The Integrating Star Camera (ISC) lab mount, coming together. | |
David and Marie inspect the mount. | |
Outside the high-bay in the early evening. | |
Positioning the ISC mount outside. | |
"Who gets to carry the camera?" | |
The ISC mounted and pointing towards Polaris. | |
The start of cool-down: liquid nitrogen being pumped into the nitrogen tank. | |
A close up of the nitrogen transfer tube. | |
The gondola though a crack in the door. | |
Me braiding a cable. | |
Vice grips frozen to the nitrogen transfer tube. | |
Ghostly image of star grabbing with the ISC. | |
Marie and Ed at work. | |
The ghost of a former BLASTer helping Ed and David at the camera. | |
Matt removes the transfer tube from the LN tank. | |
Blow-off from the nitrogen tank. On the right, you can see the nitrogen transfer tube now filling the liquid helium tank with nitrogen for the initial cool-down. | |
Chris shows his sunny side. | |
That thing's awfully bright. |