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38C3: Hacking yourself a satellite – recovering BEESAT-1 [video]

by jdiez17 on 12/29/24, 7:25 PM with 1 comments

  • by jdiez17 on 12/29/24, 7:36 PM

    A student in my university and friend of mine wrote their Bachelor's thesis on recovering BEESAT-1, the first CubeSat launched by the TU Berlin back in 2009, after it was rendered inoperable due to some unfortunate circumstances. I vividly remember the moment when they executed the fix in orbit and it worked, they were jumping up and down in happiness. While I knew about this whole ordeal, I also found about the fun technical details while watching the 38C3 talk.

    Happy to answer or forward any questions about nanosatellites, software in space, etc!