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Reid on Hercules (the launch vehicle) about to pick up BLAST. We
finally had good enough weather to do some outdoor tests, including
calibrating the sun sensor and DGPS (Differential GPS)
, and veryfing that our various
telemetries worked properly.
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Victor attaches the pivot to Hercules.
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Pulling away from the highbay.
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In transit.
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In transit.
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Marie sets up the DVD recorder NSBF has lent us, along with their
enormous TV displays, for viewing and recording video from the two
star cameras.
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Barth and Mark calibrate the DGPS.
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We take our (quasi-)daily walk up the hill.
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One of the dishes on Radar Hill.
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The IRFTS connected to the cryostat. Behind the scenes, Mark, Jeff,
and Marie use it to determine the shapes of the bandpass filters.
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Barth and Matt debug problems with the sun sensor computer.
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