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Summary

Description OPALS - Flight System (1).png	English: Flight System: The flight system is composed of three main elements: Sealed Container: houses all of the commercial-of-the-shelf (COTS) avionics boards, the laser, and custom power board pressured at 1 atmosphere with air. Connected to optical gimbal transceiver via cable feedthroughs. Optical gimbal transceiver: an optical head that contains an uplink camera and laser collimator for the downlink sits on a two-axis gimbal. Flight Releasable Attachment Mechanism (FRAM): both the sealed container and Optical gimbal transceiver sit on the FRAM, which provides a standard mechanical and electrical interface to both the ISS and the launch vehicle.
Date	2014
Source	Optical PAyload for Lasercomm Science (OPALS) at the Wayback Machine
Author	NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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