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Caption: Figure 2.
Example trajectory of the stage in zero g for a run in 750 mm s−2, including initializing, shake-up phase (red background), partial gravity phase (green background), and the way back to the home position (blue background) to reduce the distance the stage can travel in the deceleration of the drop tower capsule. Please note that the distance traveled by the stage is completely independent from the traveling height of the drop tower capsule at any given moment. Through the acceleration of this trajectory, we reintroduce the artificial gravity back into the system inside microgravity.
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