Narration: Andrea Mattern, SDO Mechanical Engineer

Transcript:
The SDO team is in the clean room preparing to lift the HMI Optics Package or HOP. We lift the instrument slowly and carefully to prevent any damage. The instrument is being rotated to get it into the correct orientation to integrate to the instrument module. It takes about 20 minutes from the time the HOP is lifted from the shipping plate to the time it is rested on the instrument module. Once it is verified that the instrument is secure, the spacecraft is rotated. The purpose of rotation is to gain better access to different parts of the spacecraft. In this particular case we are rotating to gain access to HMI to remove the lift fixture.