[HN Gopher] Hacking yourself a satellite - recovering BEESAT-1 [...
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       Hacking yourself a satellite - recovering BEESAT-1 [video]
        
       Author : Duke_Pixie
       Score  : 71 points
       Date   : 2025-01-02 15:45 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | jdiez17 wrote:
       | I remember when PistonMiner finished the fix and executed it on
       | the "flight model". They were quite literally jumping up and down
       | in happiness and the whole Chair of Space Technology at TU Berlin
       | was gossipping about it in the hallways :) Amazing hack, absolute
       | hats off to them. By the way, this is their _bachelor 's_ thesis.
       | 
       | We have used the vtable trick many times in satellite software
       | operations, whenever we had to "quickly patch" this or that
       | function, without having to uplink a whole software update -
       | which as they explain in the talk, is quite an involved process
       | that takes significant time and resources to complete.
       | 
       | Happy to answer or forward any questions about nanosatellites,
       | software in space, etc!
       | 
       | P.S.: it looks there is a bit of a mix-up with the audio of the
       | recorded talks. The default audio track contains a Polish
       | dubbing. Select the "eng-deu-pol 1080p (mp4)" which seems to be
       | the correct one. (And thanks to the A/V team at CCC for your
       | efforts to make this content accessible to everyone <3)
        
         | jeanlucas wrote:
         | This inspires me to make a nano satellite! Haha
        
           | jdiez17 wrote:
           | You should do it! It's never been more accessible and
           | affordable (relatively speaking, of course). And it's a lot
           | of fun!
        
       | motrm wrote:
       | I have to say this is perhaps one of my favourite CCC talks.
       | 
       | Interesting subject matter, novel technical problems and
       | solutions, story narrated at speed and with just enough
       | information to fill in typical knowledge gaps, and on top of all
       | of that there's slides and answers ready to go for random
       | questions from the audience.
       | 
       | Wonderful job, PistonMiner!
        
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