A Pathfinder Backplane Currently in Production (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

A Pathfinder Backplane Currently in Production

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A "pathfinder" backplane is currently in production. It's used as a test to dry-run many of the critical, high-risk activities that are associated with the assembly, integration and test of the flight hardware. This photo emphasizes the assembly tools (silver-colored) which keep all the backplane (black tubes) in place as they are bonded.

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Northrop Grumman

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