Electronics part has arrived

Well I have not written much since we have been down for problems with the rocket. Our rocket has four stages, and by the time the rockets third stage is burned out, it is above the atmosphere. To get the most height out of the burn, we toss over all the mass we can. Part of what we toss over is the nose cone. The piece of equipment that does this is called the Lateral Eject Ojive System (LEOS). It has flown on NASA rockets for years with no problems. Of course for reasons known only to the rocket gods, ours decided to pack it in. NASA had to send a new one out from the US to Norway to replace the bad one. Of course the winds were very bad at the rocket range, so planes could not fly in. Brian Hall from NASA brought out the replacement part, and had to take a ferry to get to Andones to deliver the part. I imagine that was quite a ride. Attached is a photo from Steve Powell, who is from Cornell, of the folks looking at the new LEOS when it arrived this morning. NASA has installed the new part, and now we are just waiting for the weather to clear. It was blowing snow hard enough last night that the snow machines were not out, so I got a good nights sleep.