Complete software example building upon Beep-Sat (basic) with additional tasks, complexity, fault handling, and more.

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⭐ Builds upon core concepts from Beep-Sat (basic) to yield a reliable a full-featured flight software example.

This example elaborates on four key aspects common to most small satellite missions:

1. System-wide fault handling
2. File management, data encoding, storage, and down-linking
3. Low power (safe) mode
4. Over-the-air commanding

Overview

This example is sufficient for actual real-world missions/applications.

• High-level fault handling is introduced to main.py that ensures the software will continue to run even if our tasks fail to complete (handling software AND hardware failures).

  Additionally, a "last resort" fail-safe is added that reboots the board in the event of catastrophic failure.

• Compact (bandwidth efficient) data logging is demonstrated using a modern data encoding format called MessagePack to easily store sensor data in files onboard an SD card.