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Caption: Figure 36.
Fiber cables are lashed with hook-and-loop ties to an aluminum hexagonal grid at the rear of the focal plane assembly. The grid is supported by the thermal enclosure, and sufficient slack was designed into the cable routes to ensure free hexapod motion. At right, a view of the 10 cable carts on the C-floor, after completing the installation of petals, but prior to routing cables along the truss and lowering each slithead to the spectrograph enclosure.
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