![]() | 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. |