'The mission operations team is currently focused on recovery plans.'
, the company managing the itty bitty cube-shaped satellite, admitted that an unknown issue caused CAPSTONE to tumble last week in what the contractor described as an "emergency."
"The mission operations team is currently focused on recovery plans," it wrote. "These efforts will begin by working to improve the thermal situation of several subsystems including the propulsion subsystem." In fact, ground control lost contact with the cubesat for a full day, and when it reestablished the connection, it showed that its "onboard computer systems were periodically resetting, and the spacecraft was using more power than it was generating from its solar panels.
Advanced Space says it's now preparing an operation to detumble the spacecraft and reorient its solar panels to the Sun.
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