Both satellites don’t seem to be active over Europe
Very interesting to read this thread after working on Brio and Thea since their inception in 2016/early 2017.
I wanted to update you all that Brio is currently de-orbiting. Estimated re-entry is around July 11th to July 12th. It is currently below 200km altitude. We just disabled nominal operations and turned on beaconing for Brio in 60(TBC) second interval over UHF. It’ll keep transmitting as long as it can.
Regarding not seeing signal over Europe during nominal operations, this is very normal, the satellites only communicate when a ground station is in range.
Edit: looks like we had an issue with saving the beacon params onboard; hoping to fix shortly.
Edit2: should be fixed now.
Best,
M
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