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    Engineering

    Electrical power

    Electrically, the spacecraft is configured in four major functional areas:

    • Power-supply subsystem, including a pyrotechnics unit
    • On-board data-handling subsystem
    • Attitude and orbit control and measurement subsystem
    • Telecommunications subsystem.

    Dedicated, physically separated and carefully shielded harnesses interconnect the various subsystem and payload units. The payload includes a separate experiment interconnection harness.

    Telecoms
    Guidance and navigation

    Last Update: 16 Mar 2006

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