- Rick inspects the Auroral Photometer case
- Central plate mockup on mechanical GSE
- Mark demonstrates flight software performance
- Inspection of the central plate
- Jim working on the ADCS electronics
- Mike pretending to work on the spacecraft structure (note tie)
- Darren testing the communications system
- Pete, Mark, and Heather install a solar array
- Aimee and Pete testing instruments
- Pete hooks up the antenna cables
- Recovery from the Great Flood
- Heather installs thermal blankets
- Janet performs last-minute repairs
- Rick and Pete prepare for thermal vac at Ball Aerospace
- In the tank
- Functional testing at LASP : Pete demonstrates use of GSE connector tools
- Vibration testing at Ball Aerospace
- Into the box
- Into the truck
- Ready to roll
- SNOE arrives at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California
- Gail, Rick, and Pete set up the GSE
- GSE with notorious diags; chiron with Ralphie
- Arrival at Building 1555 (Orbital facility at VAFB)
- Pete, Gail, Kettner, and Rick evaluate the payload
- Successful launch of the ORBCOMM-1 mission on a Pegasus XL
- Termination resistors added to vehicle data and clock lines
- Pegasus checkouts
- Pegasus first stage motor, with some logos
- Fairing installation complete
- The L1011 carrier aircraft “Stargazer”
- Bill with Devin Ann-Marie
- Rollout!
- Pegasus on the hotpad
- Pegasus being mated to the L1011
- Pete Supervises
- Sun and shadow, wind and rain
- Night moves
- Rollout again
- Inside the L1011
- View from the cockpit
- Don’t touch the one on the right!
- L1011, almost ready
- Launch Ops Manager with rocket
- Dark Star
- SNOE over Ventura (courtesy of Brian Webb, Umbra Research)
- Second stage burn, headed for Orion (courtesy of Brian Webb, Umbra Research)
- Waiting for first contact in the SNOE Mission Operations Center
- S-MOC during SXP turn-on
