Alasater

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   by Alasater 8mo ago

   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 linux with preempt_rt.
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   by Alasater 8mo ago

   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 software together
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   by Alasater 8mo ago

   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
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   by Alasater 8mo ago

   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 been investi
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   by Alasater 8mo ago

   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 quaternion error
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   by Alasater 8mo ago

   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 afte
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   by Alasater 6y ago

   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 phone, your car, other t
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   by Alasater 6y ago

   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 data to the ground