SpaceX F9 Transporter-7 - 2023-04-15 06:47 UTC

@fredy our nominal transmission interval is 20s in maximum power mode, decreasing in intervals of 20s down to as long as 10 minutes between the beacons if the satellite is in a critical power state. Note that our sister satellite Pleiades - Sapling Giganteum on the same frequency beacons once every minute, unchanging unless the satellite is put in deep sleep. The bandwidth should be 125 kHz, per our IARU coordination, but we do not have good data on how the LoRa modulation will appear on a waterfall at this range.

We got good AoS and around 35 modulated packets from the TinyGS network over Europe and Hawaii during the first 50 minutes after deployment, but have not heard back from the satellite since. Initial telemetry did not indicate any issues with regard to the power situation, received signal strength, or component failure, so we think we have probably suffered some kind of SEU or a thermal shock related failure. Continuing to monitor and hoping to get AoS again soon!

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