Krishna, Jim, Hugh,

Today, we began the task of replacing the gravitational actuator/damper with capacitive actuators for the BRS-X. This will make it nearly identical to BRS-Y in control and behaviour‌ and eliminate the few incidences of damper problems we have had with BRS-X.

We opened up the vacuum can and machined a hole in the aluminum thermal shield for the capacitor plate wire. The capacitor plate was then glued to the thermal shield using TorrSeal epoxy, which takes a day to set fully. Tomorrow we will complete the wiring. We will also attempt to reduce the offset between the center of mass and the pivot axis to make it less sensitive to horizontal acceleration.