SeaWiFS Receiving Station Assembly

The pictures below were taken during the assembly of the SeaWiFS Receiving Station on August 26, 1997 at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center. Page two includes pictures of the actual installation.

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Burt Baker from SeaSpace Corp. gets ready	The antenna and radome are uncrated	Gene provides a sense of scale

Antenna base put in place	The radome halves placed out of harms way	First half of radome and antenna mounting base ready

Burt and Gene get a grip on the antenna	Placing the antenna on the mounting plate	The antenna in position

Burt and Gene haul the radome into position	Applying the gasket to seal the radome	Burt and the completed antenna

Running the cables under the computer room floor	Bryan Franz feeding the cables up to the roof	Burt, the platform and the cables

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showing the SeaWiFS receiving station
installation