Would now be a good time to mention that Fox-1 is designed to operate
while illuminated, even after a battery failure?
73,
Jerry
N0JY
On 11/29/2011 5:36 PM, Andrew Koenig wrote:
The thing I've been wondering (and this is in no way accusatory, just a
question out of curiosity) is why we didn't build the IHU's with NVRAM and
a circuit to cut the batteries completely out of the loop. Since the cell
failure seems inevitable, it would only make sense to design the satellites
in a way that they can work without the batteries when the batteries do
fail.
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