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Data per day, average rate, on-board memory, eclipse energy and thermal cycles over the campaign from your payload profile. Same orbital mechanics as mission control; computed in the browser, nothing is sent until you attach it.

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Format

Satellite

The physics of the test is the same in both; what changes are the platform limits, which are [PENDING] for both.

Assumed orbit

Altitude 500 km

Node time

Campaign (days)

The real orbit is set by the rideshare launch: [PENDING]. Sun-synchronous, as in mission control.

Payload data

Channels

Bits per sample

Sampling (Hz)

Headers and timestamps (%)

Data link

Time with a link 100 %

Data leaves through relay satellites, not a ground station. Actual network, rate and availability: [PENDING]. This is an assumption, to see how the required rate changes.

Power

Active consumption (W)

Idle consumption (W)

Duty cycle 100 %

The test keeps measuring during eclipse

Period: —
Shadow per orbit: —
β angle: —
Time with a link: —
Data per day: —
Required average rate: —
Memory, one orbit without link: —
Average / peak consumption: —
Energy per orbit: —
Worst eclipse, from battery: —
Thermal cycles in the campaign: —

First 24 h from now Earth's shadow

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Plain-text summary

How it is computed

Orbit. Circular and sun-synchronous, with the inclination J2 requires at that altitude. The shadow is cylindrical and evaluated on 24 dates across the year, keeping the node time fixed: hence the range and the worst case.
Data link. There is no ground station: data leaves through relay satellites, whose network is [PENDING]. So no link geometry is assumed: you set the time with a link, and memory is sized to hold a whole orbit without one.
Average rate. One day's data spread over the time with a link. It is a floor: link acquisition, protocol overhead and retries push it up, and we agree the margin with you.
Energy. Average consumption times the length of the orbit and of the worst eclipse. It does not include the efficiency of the platform's converters, which goes in the ICD.