Abstract: A joint that is separable by detonating a detonating cord within an expanding tube. The joint is held together with a set of bolts. Each bolt is retained on one side of the joint with a lever. The expanding tube is retained under an arm of each lever. When the detonating cord is activated, the tube expands and exerts a force against an arm of each lever, thereby breaking the set of bolts, and allowing the joint to separate. In one example, the separable joint is used to retain a payload fairing on a launch vehicle so that the fairing can be jettisoned during flight.

Abstract: A wireless system of independent CPU pods for initiating, collecting, and optionally processing, absolute and/or relative response data of biological systems to stimulus and then using wireless means to transmit the data to a plurality of external communications (e.g. human interface device) via a bridge pod. The system is set up to perform a plurality of sequences of stimulus and then response measurement according to programming through the wireless network which can be changed on each CPU pod via re-programming at any time to create new configurations and metrics. The sequences may execute on each CPU pod(s) and CPU bridge pod (s) autonomously or the programing can create a plurality of different interrelated sequences depending on system objectives. A plurality of sensors and stimulate devices are connected or integrated to the CPU pods according to the purposes of the programmed stimulate response sequences.