The team's making excellent progress in getting the instrument integrated within the thermal enclosure. Today they got the collimator optics installed...
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| Collimator lens barrel attached |
Here you can see where the pseudo-slit will attach to the collimator optics.
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| Entrance slit on the collimator |
The test integration cable (aka the TIC) was routed through the enclosure wall & attached to the collimator.
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| Test integration cable (TIC) in place |
The light feed system was also set up on an ad hoc lab bench (that closely resembles a particle board box!). The light source on the left feeds a liquid light guide that plugs into the gold-coloured integrating sphere before entering the TIC.
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| Light feed for the TIC |
They also took a test image with the detector still warm to confirm that it's alive & well. Noisy of course, but fine - so then the cooling was started & it should get down to temperature sometime tomorrow.
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