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To be continued ...
Together with its electronics cabinet, the optical table was transported to the Paranal submit. The Warm Optics was installed in the VLTI focal laboratory. This delicate operation did not encounter any incident. In 2 weeks from now, the two cryostats will be themselves transported to the submit after the two detectors are installed and after all the subsystems are tested in the NIH. The tests require one cooling down and warm up cycle.
The pictures are from Yves Bresson. And the expressive text below, from Lieselotte Jochum, well traduce the satisfaction of this good day of work.
" WOW!!!! And all this without a single incidence of concern. I think this was remarkable.
Congratulations to the entire MATISSE team, and also to the Paranal support crew from SQA, Safety, Instrumentation and Systems&Optics.
A very very special thank you goes to Felix Rozas and Richard Tamblay from the mechanics group and to Nicolas Santana from Mecatronica. They did a brilliant job on the delicate equipment we had to transport. The MATISSE team was impressed by the skillful and smooth handling and also the excellent collaboration in all phases of the transport.
Muchas gracias!!! Sois los mejores ;-)
Un abrazo a todos.
Lotti "