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The upper side of Huygens' experiment platform carries the two redundant Command Data Management Units (manufactured by Laben), which are the brains of system operation, the two redundant S-band transmitters (unpainted), the central and radial acceleration sensor units (which monitor the entry and descent), the Mission Timer Unit that will wake up the Probe at the end of its 22-day coast after leaving the Cassini spacecraft, and the Pyro unit (green). Along with those subsystem units, some science hardware is visible [Image Date: 01-01-97] [97.05.006-008]