In case you missed the livestream, you can watch the archive on YouTube.
Working sensors!
We got some basic science data during the event, all sensors seem to work properly, here is a screenshot:
We will take a deeper dive into the data in the future when i have enough of it to make sense of the measurements.
Early images
We also got a medium resolution single color frame image of the porch:
And a "thumbnail" resolution color panorama:
Current status
The battery wasn't fully charged, i currently only own one solar charge controller that works with 6V lead acid batteries, so i couldn't charge up the battery before mission launch.
In order to completely charge up the battery, WaterFeeler2 is currently in power saving mode.
The PanCam is off and the Arduino wakes up only roughly every 80 seconds to do some measurements and transmit them. Power usage in this configuration should be about 30-35 Milliamps (mostly because some sensors don't power down and all the voltage converters are still running). In direct sunlight, we should get 600-900 milliamps from the solar panel to recharge are batteries.
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