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Gravity Probe B

Testing Einstein's Universe

WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS FOR WEEK ENDING 16 JUNE 2000:

PAYLOAD HIGHLIGHT
Probe C has been attached to the pumping system in the class 1000 clean room and has been evacuted. The next set of planned operations are leak testing, gyroscope caging tests, gyroscope levitations, and slow speed spins of gyroscopes #4 and #3.

Photo: Probe C while in the class 1000 clean room.

SPACE VEHICLE HIGHLIGHT
The Attitude Reference Platform Launch Restraint Mechanism (ALRM) proto-qualification unit successfully completed random vibration testing in LMSS B/181.

Photo: LMSS engineers Neil Geiger and Mitch Skinner with the ALRM proto-qual unit in LMSS B/181.

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