[amsat-bb] AO40 emergency software restart routine

["Vince Fiscus, KB7ADL" <vlfiscus@xxxxxxx>]

Just curious here.
Let's assume there's no hardware failure involved but that the command 
processing system is just locked up so it's unable to process real-time 
commands and carry out satellite house keeping. Is the command-assist 
software separate from the rest of the system and immune from lockups? One 
would think that command-assist would also be a casualty of the lock up and 
that a locked up system would be unable or unaware that it should load and 
run the software. How do command-assist and other recovery routines 
actually work?

Also, what sort of commands was AO40 processing when the telemetry stopped?

KB7ADL with fingers crossed.

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