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hi this is our midst n I'm the JPL

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Aquarius project manager and I'll be

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periodically updating you as we go

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towards launch this June we recently

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integrated or put together the solar

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panels on the spacecraft there are two

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panels on the spacecraft the panel's

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captures sunlight converts them into

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electricity and charges the battery

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which makes the observatory work we put

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the spacecraft in a very horizontal

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position where we can work on them

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planks were placed around the spacecraft

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so that the people working on it are

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safe and tethered and the spacecraft

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doesn't get harmed so we gently place

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the panel and then we place the second

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panel when you're in space there is no

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gravity so we have to provide a

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mechanism to offload the gravity while

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we're testing here on earth after that

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we manually deploy the panels so that it

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knows exactly where it is and how it is

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deployed properly we then made the

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deployment through the spacecraft itself

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once that was confirmed we put some

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light on the panel to make sure that the

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panels are alive and working a very

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critical operation that is needed for

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the spacecraft this is our midst in this