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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
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