IADS Deployment Process Commenced

With a successful confirmation of current drawn by IADS, the CatSat team has officially begun the process of deploying the Inflatable Antenna! The featured image shows a graph of current pulled by different systems on the spacecraft as a function of time during the period this deployment step occurred. The purple spike in the middle of the image shows current flowing to the IADS system as expected by the team. Although additional confirmation awaits, this indicates that the team can proceed onto the following steps of deployment.

For more information on IADS and the inflatable antenna, click here.