We are going to have an 8 hour outage on Tuesday October 2nd starting at about 9 am. We’ll be moving both servers (the database and web) to a new rack. They were sitting in a clean room hood! We’ll also be adding some memory to the database server and doing […]
Yesterday’s extraction of the picokeystone that was cut over the weekend went well. I came in Monday morning and gently placed a tiny glass spatula over the keystone to hold it in place before starting the final cut, preventing it from popping out and being lost. I then inserted a […]
The sample prep for the cometary sample was much more difficult than we expected, and took up the whole day on Friday. The good news is that it was successful. Dave started a new test picokeystone this morning. It’s in progress. Andrew
I’m sorting out the blank calibrations movies (CMs) today. We didn’t have enough good high resolution blank CMs ready in time for Phase 2 launch so we went with the existing low res blanks. They work just fine and we didn’t want to delay Phase 2. Nicole’s been checking her […]
This is our first blog entry. In order to do this expeditiously, these will be stream-of-conciousness blogs, with little or no wordsmithing, so please forgive spelling mistakes, ungrammatical sentences, and so on. I’m just writing this as if I’m writing an e-mail to a colleague. Which, effectively, I am. We’re […]
We hope to use the blog to update you dusters on happenings with the Stardust at Home project. Thanks,Team Stardust at Home