This was a big week for us. The Corrector optics and the Focal Plane Assembly arrives this week. Instead of the normal, mostly text blog, I thought I would just post a few pictures showing their arrival.
The Focal Plane Assembly, which will hold all of the guide probes and science fibers, arrives at the HET and is moved into the loading bay and then into the dome.
The Wide Field Corrector on its test stand in Arizona just before being loaded into the transport box.
The WFC in the transport box coming slowly up the mountain. It had a police escort and traveled 45 mph all the way from Arizona!
WFC arrives at the HET. We have to get it off the truck into the loading bay without exceeding the acceleration tolerances.
The experts from Crane Services lift the WFC over to the mouth of the loading bay. Then our expert sky track driver (seen earlier moving the FPA into the loading bay) moves it the rest of the way.