The Opal team works on early construction of the Opal flight satelite.
 
 

A blurry view of the antenna splitter between the primary radio and the secondary receiver. Not pretty, at all, but worked. Good job guys!

View of the top tray without the accels testbed.

Sean and Jenn take a break during construction.

Wade Henning constructs the flight accelerometer tested. Sapphire sits on the table in the background.

Carlos' pride and joy. The finished solar panels.

View of the bottom solar panel with the white antenna mounts and black LVI attachment points. The magnetometer is in the middle on the right.

Our resident power guru blesses his final work.

Top view of the top tray. The accel payloads are in the two boxes on the right. The CPU is in the middle along with the TNC and I/O boards. The radio is the silver box on the left.

Another view of the top tray.

Accel boxes now have their lids on. The long black cable leading of the right is a coax cable connecting the radio to an external antenna.

Close up of the auxilary receiver box.

The top solar panel.

The bare bottom tray. Soon the power system will be attached.

The power regulation and telemetry box attached to the bottom tray.

Carlos checks wiring and structural clearances.

Jeff Williams assembles the launch vehicle interface (LVI). The LVI and launcher were his works of art.

Yep, it all fits together. Good thing. We're actually quite impressed it was all aligned and fit together.

Inside view of Opal structure.

Jin works on the LVI.

Jeff assembles the flight launch mechanism.

The assembled first launcher.

The power tray without batteries.

Jamie works on wiring of the launcher telemetry system.

Carlos leaves a message proclaiming dire consequences to those who touch is solar panels!

Alejandro and Jamie ponder whether the two halves of the picosatellite launcher will fit. The wiring harness was not easily assembled.

The two launch tubes. Notice the versatile Swiss Army knife in the middle (black tool). Very, very handy.

Greg tests the CPU with an ole laptop.

Testing of assembled Opal.

Jamie explains to the Richard and Lars the details of the LVI.

Richard examines the wiring harness for the comm system.

Opal sprawls across the work bench during integration testing.

More sprawling of Opal across the table.