[Paper Kosmonaut]

Finally an update. Despite the scorching heat I managed to have some micro-sessions working on ANS.


First some more shots of the detailing of the top and bottom part of the satellite. I used several kinds of metallic paper to accentuate the rim and the small grappling hooks here and there. I also added a small lens to the coarse solar sensor (the small gold rectangle). The lens is a piece of LEE lighting filter.


Then the first instrument, the Soft X-ray Experiment thought up by the University of Utrecht. It was a conical mirror with a horizontal shield in the middle. Soft X-rays, having a long wavelength, would reflect, or rather bounce off the walls of the cone and fall into a receptor in a lower part of the satellite. The shield prevented other kinds of light from falling into the cone. I used shiny metallic card for the insides of the cone, aluminium coloured paper for the outside. I then doubled a strip and made ribs out of it around the cone. The shield inside was punched out the same shiny card and I used cut-off pieces of sewing pin for the positioning inside the cone.