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Postmortem: Our first VLEO satellite mission (with imagery and flight data)

64 pointsby topherhaddadtoday at 8:03 PM8 commentsview on HN

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topherhaddadtoday at 8:03 PM

Founder/CEO of Albedo here. We published a detailed write-up of our first VLEO satellite mission (Clarity-1) — including imagery, what worked, what broke, and learnings we're taking forward. Happy to answer questions.

https://albedo.com/post/clarity-1-what-worked-and-where-we-g...

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wavesplashtoday at 9:34 PM

Terrific writeup. Massive congrats to the whole team for all that creative thinking in flight and all that was achieved. (Add a note about updating FPGA's in space!) Looking forward to team Bedo unlocking VLEO for everyone.

relaxingtoday at 9:09 PM

So the root cause was the lubricant in the gyros couldn’t stand up to operating temperatures.

I’d be interested to read a postmortem of the systems engineering approach there.

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