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As promised, the first day of joint operations was pretty intense, as has been the heat. So far the "record" high temperature here at the Fili has been 43.1°C in the shade, or about 110°F. It is, of course, a dry heat, as the relative humidity around here drops from about 30% in the morning to about 10% in the heat of the day.
There was another Internet outage today, which was caused by a "sort of" scheduled outage with the general power supply. I say "sort of," because the interruption had been promised for a certain time for a certain amount of time, but actually occurred about 40 minutes later for a somewhat longer time. It didn't stop the Swedish engineers from continuing their work to clamp the spacecraft to the so-called "payload adapter system," which sits between the satellite and the upper stage, whose job it is to maneuver the satellite into its final orbit after separation from the Proton launch vehicle.
Yesterday's barbecue went off pretty well. After taking a few shots, I gave my camera to one of the ILS managers to use, figuring any pictures taken would be better than the shots I usually end up taking, and I was right. I am told the French contingent returned to their hotel and partied far into the night.
Today, I supported the joint operations in the main processing hall, and at one point I had three interpretation requests "stacked" as folks came by to ask me to interpret. In the afternoon, I supported some fiber optics checks at the upper stage propellant loading station, which isn't too far from the office facility, but far enough in this heat.
I'm the afternoon interpreter tomorrow.
Cheers...
There was another Internet outage today, which was caused by a "sort of" scheduled outage with the general power supply. I say "sort of," because the interruption had been promised for a certain time for a certain amount of time, but actually occurred about 40 minutes later for a somewhat longer time. It didn't stop the Swedish engineers from continuing their work to clamp the spacecraft to the so-called "payload adapter system," which sits between the satellite and the upper stage, whose job it is to maneuver the satellite into its final orbit after separation from the Proton launch vehicle.
Yesterday's barbecue went off pretty well. After taking a few shots, I gave my camera to one of the ILS managers to use, figuring any pictures taken would be better than the shots I usually end up taking, and I was right. I am told the French contingent returned to their hotel and partied far into the night.
Today, I supported the joint operations in the main processing hall, and at one point I had three interpretation requests "stacked" as folks came by to ask me to interpret. In the afternoon, I supported some fiber optics checks at the upper stage propellant loading station, which isn't too far from the office facility, but far enough in this heat.
I'm the afternoon interpreter tomorrow.
Cheers...
