The Opal ops team gets comfortable at the Big Dish. They also entertain some visitors.
 
 

Families look on during operations. XXX

Jamie gives an overview of the operations as he sets ups the station.

Greg and Jamie set up Opal's engineering model to do system testing.

A close up of the engineering model. Yes, it's a mess. But it works. Well most of the time. We're testing the comm link and some new commanding sequences.

Another view of the EM.

Screen shot of the solar panel currents.

Another view of the currents.

Different current data pre pico launch. Notice the slower spin rate.

View of magnetometer data.

Pre pico launch mags. Lower spinrate.

Opal orbital map.