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Integration Tests at CSBF in Palestine TX 2006
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Pietro preparing the rigging for getting the gondola upright.
Pietro and Matt survey the process to get the gondola upright.
Bliss is working on the installation of the laminated solar
panels onto their mounting grames.
Pietro standing next to a completed solar array. SBI-2 will
need four of those to provide the necessary power to the ballooncraft
Bliss in fornt of the open "guts" of the charge
controller. He is making the final adjustments to it prior to its
installation on the gondola. The two orange boxes on the lower left side of
the image are the two Odissey batteries.
Matt next to the SBI telescope while he is checking its collimation.
Telescope mount seen from the back side of the gondola.
Nathan and Pietro installing the telescope mount stiffeners.
The CSBF's crew is working on the installation of their
Support Instrument Package (SIP) on the bottom of the SBI gondola.
Gondola hanging outside during pointing tests without solar sanels
nor SIP
Another image of the pointing tests.
Bliss finishing to connect the solar panels to the charge controller.
Gondola in "almost" full flight configuration (CSBF's
solar arrays are still missing) and ready for next day hang tests.
SBI-2 ground support equipment (GSE). This is the command
console from where the instrument is controlled and monitored.
Tiny Tim: CSBF's launch vehicle in Palestine
August 2, 2006. The SBI-2 gondola is picked up by Tiny Tim
for the hang tests.
Gondola suspended from Tiny Tim and pointing at the Sun during the hag test.
Front view of the SBI-2 gondola in full flight configuration.
Starboard view.
Back view.
Port view.
The gondola is packed an ready for shipment to Antarctica!
