Author Archives: lutzhirsch

KATRIN is running and scanning again since 18:30 UT. To prevent further HD damage I changed the scanning a little. The movements between the scans are much slower now. To save time I clipped away 5° of the scanning sector … Continue reading →

We had a power drop yesterday around 16:00 UT !! Seems that the site (and also Ragged Point) was down for a while. The status of our site as far as I could figure out by now: Lidar: down Dial: … Continue reading →

Yesterday Gerhard Peters who had before sailed across the atlantic with a friend on the blue yacht above visited us on the site. They also invited us to a sundowner and dinner on board of the yacht yesterday night. We … Continue reading →

Yesterdays post might have been a bit misleading. It depicted one of our colleagues from the University of Cologne who had just installed their radiometer successfully. For the MPI crew the situation is different: KATRIN is running and has continually … Continue reading →

Although we had the customs inspection today in the morning rather than yesterday, all pieces of the puzzle fitted together today and the site now has two new instruments on it. We are tired, but happy as everything seems to … Continue reading →

Although from our experience during the first deployment the “mobile fence solution” didn’t seem to have a good chance, we gave it another try. To our surprise the answer of one company was ” do you want it today?”. They … Continue reading →