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.
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.
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...