The installation of the Particle Vibration hardware in MSG was completed without issues by the astronaut Frank Rubio on 3rd Feb 2023! Watch the videos below (Courtesy of NASA and ESA).
SODI (PARTICLE VIBRATION) Baseplate installation
SODI (PARTICLE VIBRATION) Image Processing Unit installation
SODI (PARTICLE VIBRATION) Image Processing Unit installation
SODI (PARTICLE VIBRATION) First Optical Module (Interferometer) installation
SODI (PARTICLE VIBRATION) Shaker installation
SODI (PARTICLE VIBRATION) Second Optical Module (Interferometer) installation
SODI (PARTICLE VIBRATION) Cell Array (containing fluid and particles for the experiments) installation
SODI (PARTICLE VIBRATION) installation finalization
SODI (PARTICLE VIBRATION) installation finalization
After the hardware installation, more than 160 different experiments were executed over a period of three months (February-April 2023).