January 7, 2004
We have been very busy assembling the payload. Kevin performed a bench check of the Dartmouth electronics boxes followed by an initial in-payload checkout by Kristen and Kevin on Tuesday, followed by a more extensive in-payload checkout today. The detectors are being mounted on the booms as I write this message Wednesday afternoon. Eric and Steve performed telemetry checks and optical encoder calibration on the sub-payload. We are on a path that should permit us to perform a sequence test of the entire payload late Thursday or early Friday.
A Weather Update: The weather here has dramatically warmed to above freezing with some rain and mixed precipitation and poor visibility. When we first got here it was cold, clear, and much Aurora was visible. Hopefully those days will come back again soon.
Kevin Rhoads and Kristen Frederick-Frost test the particle detector electronics boxes after the boxes have been mounted on the payload structure, and before the detectors are attached.
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