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NinjaMoreLikeANonja OP t1_jdc9e2g wrote

Reply to comment by singalongthetower2 in Hi! I am the Chief Engineer of SBUDNIC, a 3U cubesat which is deorbiting itself via drag sail, AMA! by NinjaMoreLikeANonja

Hindsight is 20/20, and engineering hindsight is hyperspectral 20/20 so…

Honestly, there are not that many ham radio modules for Arduino. We were also supply chain limited (this was in the midst of the COVID parts shortages) and the RFM96 was usually in stock.

I just spoke with SBUDNIC’s radio engineer last night and we talked a bit about this because we are in the midst of creating a more formal conference paper that details the project. His feeling is that the board is likely fine, and that we just made some shit assumptions about duty cycle and link margin and the like when we were finalizing transmission protocols. I agree with him.

So yes- I would use it again.

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