The long pump down continues
The long pump down continues. The Goddard team is done here for now and has left. Juli is at ISAS (the Japanese Space Agency facility outside of Tokyo) where they are are beginning the steps for putting the electronic boxes on the spacecraft. These electronic boxes control the various cooling stages for me, and take the data I generate while observing. But before that, various wiring harnesses are installed and checked. So things will be quiet here again until about mid-July, when most of the Goddard team will come back to perform tests on me, and actually install the electronic boxes on the spacecraft.
Oh, before he left, Rich Kelley, who is in charge of the Goddard team, gave me this picture. It's the satellite that will take me into space! The people in the picture are getting it ready while people here are getting me ready. I'll be put on it later this summer.
