Creative Commanding Enables Long-Duration Recording

By creatively leveraging the onboard commanding suite, the CatSat team has demonstrated a new capability for the metrology cameras: the ability to capture and store long sequences of images for downlink over the X-band system. The team hopes to use this capability to record an image sequence covering an entire orbit in the near future.

The thumbnail picture shows one of the images from the first successful test of this system, taken as the spacecraft flew over the Chilean central coast on the morning of February 27th, 2024.