[amsat-bb] Re: ARISSat-1 status message

[Gordon JC Pearce]

On Mon, 5 Sep 2011 20:58:52 -0700
"Greg D." <ko6th_greg at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Given that we have no battery, is there any use for the low and emergency power modes?  Can they be disabled?  If the solar panels can provide the minimum power to keep things alive, even in worst case angles (can they?), then having the spacecraft act so skittishly is kind of annoying.

Surely that's the minimum power to keep things alive *when it's in emergency mode*.

Oh, and top-posting is really annoying.

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Gordon JC Pearce MM0YEQ <gordonjcp at gjcp.net>