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Carlton Peters: I'm definitely looking forward to a launch. This will actually be the
first mission that I've gotten to see, kind of from the PDR
time-frame preliminary design time-frame, all the way through to
launch. We basically deal with the day-to-day activities in I.T.
And we are wrapping up a lot of our analytical cases for on orbit.
We performed our thermal vac test, which is our big
thermal test, kind of out of sequence of what we normally do. Usually it's the last
of the environmental test. The thermal vac test involves pretty much
every subsystem. It's the biggest most involved test. It ran for roughly
a month and a half. The challenge of doing it first is that as we move forward in our
other environmental tests, not necessarily disturbing the integrity of our thermal
design, as we move forward and have to change some things on the spacecraft.
Once we get on orbit we start getting data and all the science information
comes back, and all the thermal design comes in and things
look great, that will be a great rewarding experience.
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