Potential Weight Savings and Losses

Weight-loss Potentials

• Li+ batteries [~4lb]
  
• Aluminum thrusters [~1lb]
  
• Plumbing quick-disconnects [~1lb
  
• Thruster brackets [50% of existing]
  
• Replace thruster nuts with jam nuts
  
• Lightening holes in all aluminum angle stock to FEA-approved limits
  
• Plastic tubing and QDs
  
• USB 802.11
  
• Smaller camera casings
  
• Aluminum fastners
  
• Remove handles
  
• Thruster valves?

Weight-gain Potentials

• Circuit breakers to replace fusebox
  
• SBCs and enclosures
  
• Emergency cut-off switch, receivers, and valves
  
• Power distribution hardware