# VOLLEY: from cassette to orbit

Full film:3min10s. 1280×720,24fps; English on-screen explanation and optional closed captions; no audio.

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Retain the inventory
Twelve 3U envelopes. Two independent six-cell banks.

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Retrieve the captive pallet
The lift grips the reusable pallet before carrier locks release.

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Index to the selected cell
The pallet rises to the source-cell loading plane.

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Feed one CubeSat
Storage keepers open. Guided lead-screw pusher advances 250 mm.

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Secure the transfer
Lift keepers retain the payload. Pusher retracts; cell gates close.

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Lower to the launch plane
Loaded lift moves from 830 mm to the 46 mm launch datum.

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Transfer custody to the sled
Carrier locks engage before the lift releases its pallet grips.

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Clear. Prove. Arm.
Lift clear. Pallet locked. Source and arrest path ready.

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Accelerate the loaded sled
1.300 m powered stroke. Evaluated commands: 1, 2 and 3 m/s.

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Release the CubeSat
The payload departs; the pallet remains attached to the sled.

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Arrest and return the carrier
210 mm arrest allocation. Retained carrier and pallet return.

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Index the next retained cell
Eleven payloads remain. Repeat the controlled sequence.

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Passive canisters release stored spring energy; VOLLEY commands a powered stroke.
Both start from the host-established orbital state.

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Host trims or an ideal preset spring can match preplanned targets.
Actual deployer mechanisms and separation settings vary.

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A generic restart-capable upper stage supplies the coarse move from 500 km circular.

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A +27.42 m/s tangential burn enters the transfer ellipse.

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Coast for 47.82 minutes in the same orbital plane.

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A second +27.32 m/s burn circularizes the host at 600 km.

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At delivery, VOLLEY sets the relative release vector; the host supplies maneuver authority.

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Current ACR1 computations evaluate command points 1, 2 and 3 m/s.

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The 3 m/s command gives a modeled payload inertial kick of 2.92694 m/s.

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Retained sled motion and host recoil are included. The local schematic is not to scale.

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Compare the same 600 km host state with a representative 1 m/s passive spring.

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The 1 m/s P-POD-style example is a comparison choice, not a universal product rating.

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An ideal ground-preset spring can match the same kick and the same ideal trajectory.

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The 24-hour co-rotating zoom has separately scaled axes. It is not navigation accuracy.

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The 3 m/s command example creates a 600 by 610.82 km ellipse.

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Perigee remains at 600 km. The orbital period is about 96.80 minutes.

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A circle at apogee requires another propulsion event: about +2.926 m/s here.

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Coast follows the ellipse. Circularization requires a separate burn.

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0.2 m/s is an illustration outside the current evaluated command points.

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Current modeled points are 1, 2 and 3 m/s. This view shows the 3 m/s command.

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About 16 m/s is a historical periodic-model result, not a current ACR1 rating.

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1 km/s is future kinematic research, shown separately from the current rail.

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3.5 km/s gives an unbound path: a future kinematic case, not current rail capability.