Home Mission Overview Scientific Objectives The STEDI Program Launch Vehicle Missions Ops Project Library Publications Journals Posters Spacecraft Spacecraft Specs Instruments Structure EPS C&DH ADCS COMM TCS Pictures People Instrument Design Graphics Movies History Updates Press Releases Campaign Personnel INSTRUMENT PICTURES Auroral Photometer and Solar X-ray Photometer cases on flow bench Battery case machined out of aluminum block using NC mill at NCAR Central plate Mockup with harness brackets 80186 flight emulator board under test Instrument electronics under test Marmon clamp assembly Mechanical GSE in the SNOE clean room The SC4A flight computer Prototype solar panel The Solar X-ray Photometer case Launch adapter installed on the central plate Patch antennas on ground plane The Auroral Photometer, ready for test Auroral Photometer, ready for integration Pegasus XL motor with BATSAT secondary payload integrated Battery conditioning with high-tech cooling equipment A flight battery on Janet's workbench Central plate interior SNOE with both solar array covers removed Starboard half of fairing installed Port half of fairing being installed The Cincinnati Electronics Transceiver Adapter cone and marmon clamp arrive Spacecraft being uncrated at Building 836 (NASA facility at VAFB) The JPL microGPS unit Spacecraft interior, launch adapter side Launch adapter brackets The Billingsley Magnetometer Mechanical mate of the spacecraft to the launch vehicle Spacecraft interior, instrument side Alcohol-filled ring nutation damper SNOE with one solar array cover removed The power control unit integrated on the spacecraft Pyro Driver Units repaired at Chandler The SwRI SC4A flight computer on the central plate What the hell is wrong with this thing, anyway? SNOE Spacecraft in the Building 836 cleanroom In the clean tent at Building 1555 Film crew gets a little too close Spacecraft Structure on Mechanical GSE Separation/Pyroshock test at Ball Aerospace Spacecraft on MGSE during functional testing Spacecraft on the spin table SNOE integrated onto BATSAT and Pegasus Solar panel axial support struts Solar array testing Solar X-ray Photometer, ready for integration Torque rod mounted on an antenna mast Ultraviolet Spectrometer, ready for integration The Ultraviolet Spectrometer undergoes vibration testing at Ball Aerospace baileys@vt.edu