Finally, the daughter rocket carrying the diagnostic package will be separated from the mother rocket using very weak springs so as to move as slowly as possible (desirably below 5 cm/sec). This is because the effective volume where an intense microwave field can be created is quite limited; i.e., only in the vicinity of the transmitter. Many kinds of transmission modes are to be tested in this third phase. The direction of the microwave beam will be pointed toward the microwave receiver onboard the daughter rocket to demonstrate energy transmission. Finally, the microwave energy will be concentrated onto one point near the daughter rocket to effectively observe nonlinear plasma instabilities.
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