Instrument team members Mike Smith & Kurt Jaehnig arrived from Wisconsin over the weekend & went up to SALT on Monday morning, along with fellow Badger Matt Bershady, who's currently based in Cape Town. They opened up the container that afternoon (yesterday) & were relieved to find that it hadn't had the snow-globe treatment...
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| All still neatly packed - whew! |
Today's mission was to get the thermal enclosure erected, so it was all hands on deck from the Tech Ops team.
| How about we start with the floor... |
| Do we really want to do this? |
| There was clearly a memo about dressing to match the enclosure today! |
| We've got walls, with feed-throughs |
| Nico contemplating the office potential of this nifty new space |
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| Eben conducting his orchestra |
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| Taking ownership |
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| Ok - what's next? |
Somehow... this is where things were by 11am! All together, walls up, roof on, fibre cable aperture cut - what just happened here?! Awesome 😎




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