First - they never want to use someone else software framework again (an early SW architect decided that would accelerate things but we ended up re-writing almost all of it) and it was all C++ on the satellite. We ran…
From my perspective, the number one reason we had a well functioning satellite out of the gate is my philosophy of testing "safe mode first". What that means is in a graduated fashion, test that the hardware and…
To be certain, if you're in the trenches of this anomaly investigation you'll get the full root cause and corrective action presentation, but that's not what this post is for. You're correct on 1, we ended up hitting an…
Space safety for sure on the cover, although I'm not sure we'll have that cover for future launches because it was less than easy to coordinate with the FCC on where to eject it. The radio came from a supplier who has…
We actually didn't get to that part of the payload calibration campaign unfortunately, but all indications pointed towards getting geolocation between 5-10 meters on this first mission, driven primarily by star tracker…
I'm AyJay, Topher's co-founder and Albedo's CTO. We'll actually be publishing a paper here in a few weeks detailing how we got 3-axis torque rod control so you can get the real nitty gritty details then. We got here…
While it’s definitely true GPS is a “free spinoff” of a government service (ie not really free), it is accessed by developers through a platform you purchase that translate that GPS signal into useable data (ie your…
Indeed a 9x in resolution is a big ol chunk of data, and primarily, increases in the bands collected (PAN vs RGB vs NIIR vs LWIR vs hyperspectral/multispectral) data is one piece of a complicated puzzle of how to get…
First - they never want to use someone else software framework again (an early SW architect decided that would accelerate things but we ended up re-writing almost all of it) and it was all C++ on the satellite. We ran…
From my perspective, the number one reason we had a well functioning satellite out of the gate is my philosophy of testing "safe mode first". What that means is in a graduated fashion, test that the hardware and…
To be certain, if you're in the trenches of this anomaly investigation you'll get the full root cause and corrective action presentation, but that's not what this post is for. You're correct on 1, we ended up hitting an…
Space safety for sure on the cover, although I'm not sure we'll have that cover for future launches because it was less than easy to coordinate with the FCC on where to eject it. The radio came from a supplier who has…
We actually didn't get to that part of the payload calibration campaign unfortunately, but all indications pointed towards getting geolocation between 5-10 meters on this first mission, driven primarily by star tracker…
I'm AyJay, Topher's co-founder and Albedo's CTO. We'll actually be publishing a paper here in a few weeks detailing how we got 3-axis torque rod control so you can get the real nitty gritty details then. We got here…
While it’s definitely true GPS is a “free spinoff” of a government service (ie not really free), it is accessed by developers through a platform you purchase that translate that GPS signal into useable data (ie your…
Indeed a 9x in resolution is a big ol chunk of data, and primarily, increases in the bands collected (PAN vs RGB vs NIIR vs LWIR vs hyperspectral/multispectral) data is one piece of a complicated puzzle of how to get…