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Offload morning...
May. 4th, 2010 06:50 amMy stint as the "on call" interpreter was pretty uneventful yesterday, which is as it should be. I received only one call, from the Russian control room, about some technical detail that had to be resolved with the propellant team soonest, and as I had just walked past the team members sitting outside the hotel waiting for the post-lunch bus to the processing facility, the issue was resolved quickly.
The main campaign team arrived yesterday, including the other French-speaking interpreter, so now all we need is a satellite and some support equipment to start working in earnest. Those items and more will be arriving today, aboard an Antonov An-124 transport aircraft.
The situation will be a bit more complex than usual, since aircraft usage has been coordinated to both bring the new "bird" and support equipment in, and to haul the hardware used during the recently completed AMC-4 launch campaign back out.
Based on past experience, my gig today - to support the offload and to escort the train carrying the satellite and equipment containers back to the processing facility - will be a long one even without whatever steps will be required to coordinate the backhaul.
With any luck, that'll give me some time to further consider this week's LJI prompt, which has resisted all efforts on my part to find an approach ("punchable face" just doesn't elicit any reaction), not that something like that has ever stopped me before.
Time to get myself together an go downstairs for breakfast. It's going to be a long day.
Cheers...
The main campaign team arrived yesterday, including the other French-speaking interpreter, so now all we need is a satellite and some support equipment to start working in earnest. Those items and more will be arriving today, aboard an Antonov An-124 transport aircraft.
The situation will be a bit more complex than usual, since aircraft usage has been coordinated to both bring the new "bird" and support equipment in, and to haul the hardware used during the recently completed AMC-4 launch campaign back out.
Based on past experience, my gig today - to support the offload and to escort the train carrying the satellite and equipment containers back to the processing facility - will be a long one even without whatever steps will be required to coordinate the backhaul.
With any luck, that'll give me some time to further consider this week's LJI prompt, which has resisted all efforts on my part to find an approach ("punchable face" just doesn't elicit any reaction), not that something like that has ever stopped me before.
Time to get myself together an go downstairs for breakfast. It's going to be a long day.
Cheers...
