Last week the Upgrade team finished drilling the fifth hole and started in on the sixth. But it’s not all drilling for the team—there’s also installation of modules and then commissioning all the deployed devices. But there was progress on all fronts. The fifth string was completely deployed, and the commissioning team has been making good progress on commissioning all the deployed devices so far. Above, some happy members of the testing team are seen posing on top of large boxes out on the ice. Below are some views similar to last week, here of an open junction box during inspection and a slack pit lined with magnetic indicator tape, with the IceCube Lab in the background.
Last week’s excitement for the IceCube Upgrade project centered around moving the drill tower and operations structures into place. The location is over hole 87, which will be the first Upgrade hole (the IceCube detector has 86 holes). The installation team is also making progress on setting up the area for acceptance …
Last week, the IceCube crew completed the drilling and installation for the first of the IceCube Upgrade strings. Above is a group of drillers on the day shift after deploying more than half of the modules into the hole. By the end of the week, they had begun drilling for the next …
Steady progress continues on the IceCube Upgrade construction effort. Drilling and installation operations have continued to stabilize, and four of the seven holes have been completed so far. It takes a lot of energy to accomplish tasks at each stage of the process, from heavy lifting by equipment to position the tower operations …
