Hr kommer information om vad som hnt med SSETI:
On Thursday, October 27, at 22:20 CEST SSETI Express went into a safe mode due to an undervoltage caused by battery charging problems. The operations team is working actively to resume nominal operations of the satellite and is receiving tremendous help in the process from the
amateur radio community. At the time of the anomaly many mission milestones had already successfully been met.
Careful analysis of the data received, coupled with ground-based computer simulations and hardware tests, strongly support the proposed theory of a specific component failure in the excess power dissipation system.
Ground-based hardware tests confirm the possibility of a further failure mode of the specific component, which would allow the batteries to charge and the spacecraft to operate once again.
Testing is ongoing to ascertain the specific likelihood of this, and to investigate other possible alternative explanations.
Given that the spacecraft is currently inoperable, the mission cannot continue as planned. It is therefore on indefinite standby , pending the technical possibility of re-activation of the spacecraft.
The team remain hopeful and vigilant. The primary groundstation and mission control centre are being configured for autonomous monitoring of the spacecraft, such that if it reactivates the team will be immediately
alerted and ready to resume the mission. The educational goals of the mission continue to be met daily as we try
to analyse and understand the events since the launch.
Neil Melville – Project Manager
Klla: Neil Melville via ANS