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CASCADES - Integration Photos - Dec. 22, 2004

Here are some frames from a video recording of a deploy test of a mocked-up subpayload ejection. The large Cornell Efield subpayloads will be ejected fore and aft along the magnetic field line. In this test, the payloads are suspended horizontally on long ropes and the subpayload dummy is being shot off sideways. You can see it swing away from the main payload on its rope, and begin to swing back. After the vibration test in January, this test will be done with the real hardware, and both the fore and aft subs will be ejected simultaneously.

Here are some photos of the buildup of the front end experiment section and the PFF subpayloads. These smaller subpayloads will be ejected perpendicular to the field line. The small PFF payloads sit inside the front section of the main payload structure, and spin out like frisbees after the payload skin is ejected.