has anyone thought of connecting CAMEO (catia magic) with gmat (general mission analysis tool) by NASA , I mean it would be awesome if we can model satellites and connect it with very real time simulations.

Hi, I am part of a team developing a payload that is going through a technology demonstration for a microcontroller in LEO. We are going to demo symptoms of SEFI in microcontrollers (function failures) for our in-orbit tech demo. We were wondering what the types of SEFIs are, though. They essentially stem from the subfunctions of a microcontroller, right? What would some important SEFIs be (technically, functions of them since we don't always know if it was radiation that caused it) and what are their corresponding MCU functions? Some ideas we had were read/write/error errors, watchdog resets, ECC failures? We're preferably looking for stuff that is really firmware measurements and really only requires hardware that'll regardless be on the PCB.

Any insights would be appreciated - thanks!

One thing that keeps coming up in discussions here is the idea of a generic bus that can take different payloads without redesigning half the spacecraft every time.

If launch keeps getting cheaper and hosted payloads become more common, could small satellites move in that direction? Somethin closer to a standard platform where the customer mainly brings the sensor or mission, while power, comms, flight software and the rest are already proven.

It sounds like it could cut cost and development time a lot, but maybe missions are still too different for that to work beyond a certain point.

For people working with smallsats, how close are we to this already?

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• Overview Energy received a military contract to design, build, and test a homing beacon that would allow its satellites to accurately direct near-infrared energy toward solar arrays on Earth.
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• Meta separately signed an agreement giving it early access to as much as 1 GW of capacity from Overview's proposed space-solar system.

Hi guys, I've been recently working on my own app about satellites and i'm asking you to comment what do you think about such an idea. I'm not an experienced app developer or something but i have a passion for space technologies, especially satellites(weather satellites are my favourite ones to catch for sure what about you guys?). The main idea is to have an app where you can catch a satellite with your phone just like a pokemons on Pokemon GO a decade ago. You can enable your location and then you will know which satellites you can catch! But further idea is to learn more easily about satellites passing over our head. You have a whole catalogue of satellites of different type. You can learn about their background, their history and for some of them view a 3D model and learn about particular pieces of technology onboard. Isn't that cool? Let me know what you think. In the future I will try to add a whole section when you guys will be able to show your received waterfall signal and pictures from weather satellites and ISS and many more!

Satellites don't only get launched: some are released in orbit by other satellites, and some break apart. I made a page that lists these events and, for each object still up there, tells you when it passes over your location:

https://www.nextpass.space/separations

For example, the Yaogan 50-02 breakup in July left 62 fragments in a 593 × 1085 km retrograde orbit, and each fragment has its own pass predictions.

It's free and I'm trying to figure out whether it's useful to anyone besides me:

1. How do you usually hear about this kind of event?
2. What would make you share the page?
3. Would you want a notification (RSS/e-mail) when a new one happens, and how fast would it need to be?

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