Baen Tougher, Astro Physics and Astronomy, Week Six
This was my last week interning at LASP at CU Boulder. This six-week experience has gone by so fast and I feel like I have learned so much; not only about astrophysics but also about living independently, college life, and what I would like to major in later. On Monday of this last week, I […]
Baen Tougher, Astro Physics and Astronomy, Week Five
This past week has been one of the best weeks of my internship. Loudon and I are at the peak of our work and it has been very exciting. We had a late start to the week because our mentor, Dmitry Vorobiev, let us drive back to Telluride for the 4th of July. When we […]
Baen Tougher, Astro Physics and Astronomy, Week Four
This past week, Loudon and I began cleaning the flat-sat’s fasteners. We buzzed the bolts and screws in an ultrasonic cleaner to get them clean and not damage the electronics in the flat-sat; when the screws were done we took them out and dried them with nitrogen gas and sealed them in clean bags to […]
Baen Tougher, Astro Physics and Astronomy, Week Three
This has been my third week of studying Astro Physics at LASP. This past week Loudon and I finished our CAD model of the Flat-sat. After making our modal we went to the machine shop to drill the holes. We made the holes using a mill, that measured out each hole within a 1000th of […]
Baen Tougher, Astro Physics and Astronomy, Week Two
This is the second week of my 6-week internship in Boulder Colorado, studying astrophysics. This second week has been a little slower than the first week. The people I have been working with have been trying to meet a deadline for the new Sprite Cube-Sat that they are working on, so a lot of […]
Baen Tougher, Astro Physics and Astronomy Week One
I am Baen Tougher and I am spending my summer in Boulder Colorado, at The Center for Aerospace and Astronomy. I will be working with The Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics for the next 6 weeks. There I will be working with another Pintern, Loudon Demlond. For our internship, we will be working under […]