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MANTRA 2002 Photos from Vanscoy
Monday/Tuesday, September 2/3, 2002
- Grasshoppers - our constant campaign companions this summer
- Sunset on launch night - view 1
- Sunset on launch night - view 2
- Rolling the gondola out of the hangar
- Pierre videos the gondola roll-out
- John and Glen watching the gondola roll-out
- Akira, Hongjiang, and Jean-Pierre watching the gondola roll-out
- Ben jotting in his logbook
- Jonathan makes final preparations to the onboard ozonesonde
- The gondola suspended from the launch truck
- Clear view of the suspended gondola
- Kim and Pierre on the launch truck, while Derek steadies the gondola
- Matt fills the radiometer dewars with LN2, while Pierre looks on
- Matt fills the radiometer dewars with LN2, standing on the pick-up truck
- Pierre fills the FTS dewars with LN2
- Laying out the terminate fitting - view 1
- Laying out the terminate fitting - view 2
- Laying out the terminate fitting - view 3
- Removing the balloon from its crate
- Laying out the balloon
- Beginning the helium fill of the balloon
- The fill continues
- The balloon is released upright
- Nice vertical photo of the balloon, helium fill tubes, and helium trailer
- Dimmer vertical view of the balloon
- Nice horizontal photo of the balloon, helium fill tubes, and helium trailer
- Dimmer horizontal view of the balloon
- Looking along the flight train towards the distant balloon
- The gondola, balloon, and spotlights
- The gondola and launch truck just before launch
- The balloon and gondola ascend in the darkness (somewhere up there)
Thursday, August 29, 2002
- Ozonesonde launch - 1 (Stephen holds the balloon)
- Ozonesonde launch - 2 (it's windy)
- Ozonesonde launch - 3 (the crew lines up)
- Ozonesonde launch - 4 (10 people all in a row)
- Ozonesonde launch - 5 (ready to release)
- Ozonesonde launch - 6 (on its way)
- Ozonesonde launch - 7 (up and away)
- Indoors, preparing the gondola for launch (Rodney, Ben, Martin, Caroline, Matt)
- Ben deep in thought
- Stephen and Ben putting the OH spectrometer onboard the gondola
- Solar alignment tests with the gondola outdoors (Tom, Pierre, Kim, Debra)
- Solar alignment tests with the gondola outdoors (Debra)
- Solar alignment tests with the gondola outdoors (Kim, part of Caroline)
- Solar alignment tests with the gondola outdoors (Pierre, Kim)
- Solar alignment tests with the gondola outdoors (Martin, Caroline, Matt)
- SAOZ tests outdoors (Florence and Jean-Pierre)
- Pierre with Debra working under black cloth
- Pierre and Tom
- Ben and Aaron take cover from the blazing sun
- Martin takes a break with a book
- Caroline and Elham
- Caroline and Elham again
- Caroline and Elham in blue light outdoors
- Caroline, Elham, and Martin
- Stephen and David
- Dale, Rejean, and Jonathan looking at the wind plots
- Boyd and Ben (Stephen, David, Elham, and Matt in the background)
- Florence and Elham
- Garth and Jeremy in SIL's mission control area
- Garth and Jeremy again
- John with the DU FTS computers
- Jean-Pierre and Florence
- Kim and Dale
- Kim, John, Pierre, Kaley, Jonathan, and the DU FTS
- Martin and Garth
- Rejean and Jean-Pierre
- Rolling out the gondola (Matt in foreground)
- Ben painting everything white for flight
- Preparing the gondola for flight - 1 (Tom, Ben, Stephen, Jonathan)
- Preparing the gondola for flight - 2 (Aaron, Kim, Ben)
- Preparing the gondola for flight - 3
- Preparing the gondola for flight - 4
- Tom on the gondola, attaching the top mount
- The gondola suspended from the launch truck (assorted onlookers)
- The back of the gondola - almost launch ready
- The front of the gondola (pointing system) - almost launch ready
- The left (?) side of the gondola - almost launch ready
- The right (?) side of the gondola - almost launch ready
- The control and sonde areas of the hangar
- Control area during RFI tests (Garth, Werner, Martin, Matt, Debra)
- Tom, Pierre, and Werner with the gondola as darkness descends
- The gondola at night
- A distant lightning bolt
- The lightning moves closer
- The gondola comes back indoors - 1 (Matt, Jonathan, Tom, Martin, Ben)
- The gondola comes back indoors - 2 (Larry, David, Dale)
- The gondola comes back indoors - 3 (Larry, David, Pierre)
- The gondola indoors after the launch scrub (Tom, Kaley, Werner, David)
Wednesday, August 28, 2002
Tuesday, August 27, 2002
- Martin tinkering with Debra's MSC FTS
- Pierre and Tom looking serious
- Rodney indoors, focussed on his computer
- Brian and Stephen at their posts
- Matt and Caroline work on the gondola, preparing for solar alignment
- Kim and Matt outdoors with part of the gondola
- Caroline, Martin, and Debra preparing the instruments for solar alignment
- Matt and Ben beginning to align the pointing system
- Ben and Jean-Pierre checking the alignment of the pointing system
- The Vanscoy site - both hangars with the gondola outdoors
- The view down the runway, where the balloon may be laid out
- John with the U of Denver FTS outdoors, and Aaron in the background
- Florence outdoors, concentrating on her SAOZ computer
- Martin demonstrating more of his artistic talents, painting the data logger a lovely shade of white
- Caroline bolting down SPS-B1 and MAESTRO-B
- Rodney setting up web camera #2 for some outdoors viewing
- The painting was the last straw - Martin takes a break
- Lifting the OH spectrometer onto the gondola - Dale, Brian, Stephen, and Ben in a very fetching hat
- Ben models the latest in hat fashion
- No time for a lunch break today - a "picnic" on the job has to do
Monday, August 26, 2002
Sunday, August 25, 2002
Saturday, August 24, 2002
- The MANTRA 2002 team (missing Martin, Bob, David B., and SIL people)
- David T. prepares to launch his first ozonesonde
- David T. and Jon about to release the ozonesonde
- David T. and Jon watch the ozonesonde on its way up
- Preparing the payload for interference tests (Aaron, Caroline, Ben, Stephen, Debra, Pierre, John)
- Preparing the payload for interference tests (Aaron, Elham, Matt, Stephen, Florence, Ben)
- Preparing the payload for interference tests (Matt, Jonathan, Stephen, Garth, Debra, Jeremy)
- The instrumented gondola outdoors, anti-sun side (with Matt)
- The instrumented gondola outdoors, sun-pointing side (with John)
- The instrumented gondola outdoors, OH spectrometer side
- The instrumented gondola suspended from the launch truck
- Ben cooling down with liquid nitrogen boil-off
- Florence, Jean-Pierre, David T., and Stephen hard at work
- Caroline, Akira, Kaley, and Ian hard at work
Friday, August 23, 2002
Thursday, August 22, 2002
Wednesday, August 21, 2002
People (and computers!)
Instruments
A few photos from August 16-19, 2002
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