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Max Holliday edited this page Aug 12, 2018 · 1 revision

When KickSat is orbiting over Earth, it will be chirping periodically. In these chirps, there will be a status byte included, which will hold a value corresponding to a certain state that the satellite could be in.

States

  • 0x02: Standby Mode
  • 0x06: Arming Mode
  • 0x0E: Deploying Sprites
  • 0x1E:
  • 0x3E:

Flags

  • 0x40: Low Battery
  • 0x80: Critical Error

Status Byte

The status byte will consist of one state combined with zero or more flags using the OR operator.

Status Byte = State | Flags

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