The SHREC team is at SmallSat this week! Come see the latest CASPR imagery and talk with us about our next mission!

Attempted burst capture over Ocean City, Maryland, but just missed it! Some boats visible, though! Uplinked weekend targets, including burst capture over Tokyo, Japan!

Burst capture attempt near Puno, Peru! Downlink started!

Annapolis burst successful with traces of housing developments, but ~90% cloud cover. Manual imaging test pass over South America and Europe!

Manually downlinked last few segments of troublesome Algerian desert burst! Attempted burst capture over rural France too dark. Scheduled weekend burst capture attempt over Annapolis, Maryland!

Mostly ocean views in our difficult imaging orbit today. Attempted burst capture over the Falkland Islands, but too dark for downlink.

Reattempting downlink of Algerian desert burst due to many LoS events. Another burst captured of Baja, California! A bit underexposed, but stored for next time!

Limited burst opportunities today due to LoS and cloud cover. Began downlink of Algerian desert burst!

No commanding this week due to SHREC Midyear Workshop, but looking forward to sharing latest results with members! Over 27,000 4K monochrome frames and 12 bursts downlinked!

Collected radiation-effects data logs for SMW23. 168 SEUs and 10 MBUs so far! Attempted another downlink of final half of Fort Lauderdale burst, but many LoS-es in this window. Another feature-rich burst capture over Algerian desert stored for next time!

First half of Fort Lauderdale burst complete! Second half started!

Beautiful 20-frame, 2048-pixel burst near Fort Lauderdale, Florida including dense residential and commercial areas with coastal water features! Above threshold for single transfer, so must downlink two channels at a time. First set started!

Manually downlinked remaining three missing segments of Milwaukee burst! Completed stitching, decompression, and assembly.

Updating onboard timing synchronization script for more precise image capture. Continuing to downlink Milwaukee burst!

20-frame, 2048-pixel wide burst near Milwaukee, Wisconsin includes residential, commercial, airport, and lake! Successfully completed downlink of east PA burst and started downlink of Milwaukee burst!

Manual downlink of nine sections of east Pennsylvania burst. Automated transfer of the remainder due to limited command time, but still missing a few segments.

Compression and downlink of east Pennsylvania burst! Another attempt in Florida, but mostly cloud cover.

Completed downlink of north Chile burst! Successfully captured another series of frames in eastern Pennsylvania!

Mountainous burst captured in northern Chile! Downlink started!

Tracked down the timing drift issue that has been causing accuracy issues with scheduled image capture! Working on several fixes to resolve.

Finally completed the Namibian coast burst after three windows of downlink attempts!

Successful test of new burst verification system! Another series of downlinks of the Namibian coast burst.

Three burst captures of the Falkland Islands, the coast of the Republic of the Congo, and southern Chile all show heavy cloud cover. Made on-orbit adjustments to the burst tile verification system.

Captured a beautiful coastal burst near Walvis Bay, Namibia! Started downlink, but only completed 15/42 chunks due to loss of ISS signal.

Too much cloud cover for burst attempt, but uplinked nineteen imaging targets for the weekend. Adjustments to targeting system yielded excellent, cloud-free shot of Santa Barbara, California!

Burst captures near Pittsburgh and New Orleans, but both abandoned due to heavy cloud cover. Testing adjustments to targeting system.

Burst captures near Wilmington, North Carolina and Boise, Idaho, but both were full cloud cover.

Additional command day to expedite downlink of Moncton burst. Successfully stitched, decompressed, and uploaded for Satlantis review and processing!

Successful 2048-pixel wide, 20-frame burst over Moncton, Canada! Best burst yet, with residential development and airport clearly visible! Downlink started.

Manual imaging and preparation for burst attempt, but excessive cloud cover over target area resulted in postponement.

Two 2048-pixel wide, 20-frame burst captures. One over central US ended up being primarily cloud cover. Another targeted Monterey, California! 33 of 37 chunks of this compressed burst have been downlinked! The rest will be retrieved next week.

Completed another 2048-pixel wide, 20-frame burst over the central US. Downlink started! Note high beta angles and heat for the next few weeks.

Reactivated imaging automation for the weekend. Unfortunately, there is insufficient time to attempt another burst.

Attempted downlink completion of previous burst, but encountered minor command anomaly. Adjusted state to prepare for shutdown for EVA on Thursday.

Successful burst capture over Barbados! 38 of 40 segments successfully downlinked in three transfers. Two more to grab next week!

Burst capture attempt in the Azores lost to a minor frame corruption error. Some cloud cover in the area, so not a significant miss.

No commanding this week due to SHREC Annual Workshop! The CASPR team is excited to share our victories from the first year in orbit!

Further downlink of previous burst attempt. Still missing eight of forty-six segments. Reattempting next week.

Successful 2048-pixel wide, 20-frame burst capture over Southern Chile despite limited imaging orbit! Downlink started.

Nominal commanding and preparation for burst attempt, but high temperatures due to beta-angle peak prevented it. Will resume burst capture plans after the holiday break. Happy Holidays from the CASPR team!

Burst capture over Santiago, Cuba. Only one channel acquired due to minor trigger bug. Downlink pending. Assembling and testing burst automation.

Burst capture over Puerto Rico, but there was excessive cloud cover.

No commanding this week due to holiday absence. Happy Thanksgiving from the CASPR team!

No commanding this week due to extravehicular activity.

Burst attempt made over the south of Argentina, but cloud cover was excessive. Poor orbit prevented further attempts today.

Burst attempt over the Falkland Islands yielded only one channel due to minor trigger bug. Second burst attempt over Southern Chile successful.

Downlinked radiation-effects data for November. Attempted long-swath, 40-frame burst capture over Montevideo, Uruguay, but experienced more cloud cover than expected.

The CASPR operations team is at the Space Experiments Review Board meeting to present the final outbrief of the STP-H6-SSIVP mission.

Manual imaging over Canada, the United States, and Africa. Burst attempt was made, but there was excessive cloud cover.

Pulled last eight compressed segments of the quarter-res burst attempt near Jacksonville, Florida. Successfully merged! Swath length at quarter res stretches more than one FoV with all spectra.

We are attending the 3rd Space Imaging Workshop at Georgia Tech presenting on “Automated Mapping for Comparison of Satellite Imagery” developed for our CASPR imagery.

Captured a forty-frame, quarter-resolution burst near Jacksonville, Florida. Completed partial downlink, but signal loss caused issues with eight of thirty-eight segments. We will complete downlink during the next commanding window.

Captured a twenty-frame, half-resolution burst of the Pittsburgh area, but there was a bit too much cloudcover.

Completed downlink of central Spain burst. Attempted burst capture over US Virgin Islands but experienced issues with green/blue channel. Tested new burst-verification method, but it still has some bugs to work out.

Successful capture of a 20-frame burst of central Spain at half horizontal resolution (2048 pixels)! Downlink attempt is missing several segments due to signal loss, but it will complete Thursday.

Successful downlink of remaining NIR/red half of southern Chile glacial area burst. Attempted another burst capture along the Brazilian coast, but the ground was fully occluded by clouds.

Successfully captured a detailed, mountainous twelve-frame burst over the glacial area in southern Chile! First successful full test of half-burst compression. Successful downlink of green/blue half of burst.

While half of a burst was downlinked, a minor transient frame-grabber bug prevented proper capture. A poor imaging orbit and loss-of-signal events prevented a new burst attempt today.

Successfully tested new half-burst compression method on the GPU. Developed new script for burst thumbnail verification.

Resolved eight-frame limit issue with green/blue filter channel enabling longer full bursts! Working on further splitting solutions to compress and downlink these longer bursts.

Completed downlink of mountainous terrain burst imagery near Oakland, California.

Completed downlink of Freehold burst containing feature-rich suburban area! Captured another burst of mountainous terrain near Oakland, California and currently downlinking.

Reattempted downlink of burst captured over Freehold, New Jersey. Still missing one archive segment.

Attempted capture of first twelve-frame burst over Freehold, New Jersey. Poor downlink window due to losses. Will have to reattempt downlink on Tuesday.

Captured nine-frame burst over Montreal, Canada, while testing updates to split and downlink method. Burst was downlinked successfully but overexposed due to unanticipated cloud cover.

We’re at SmallSat 2022! Visit us at the “University of Pittsburgh - NSF SHREC” university exhibit to learn more about our exciting work.

Captured burst over Liege, Belgium, and transferred the burst to the GPU for compression. Attempted downlink of the burst images with partial success.

Downlinked radiation-effects data for June and July. Attempted another burst capture, but downlink only partially complete.

Loaded new schedule for targeted imaging over the weekend.

Completed downlink and verification of first complete nine-frame burst of images from southwest Bolivia.

Verified proper output on Lockheed Martin PSF deconvolution GPU app. Developed and tested a method to offload iSIM-90 frames and compression to the GPU. Downlinked 33 of 39 segments of an image burst near Sucre, Bolivia. The remaining six segments will be downlinked next week.

Retrieved burst segments affected by missed packet issue from NASA backups. Attempted manual downlink.

Successfully captured a burst of nine image frames over eastern Virginia but downlinked only 14 of 35 file segments due to loss of signal. Continuing to work on improved compression and downlink methods.

Completed first successful large file downlink of Lockheed Martin PSF deconvolution GPU app output data!

Created new golden-file list for redundant file storage on GPU. Re-ran Lockheed Martin SSP app and transferred good results to GPU.

Integrating upload into GPU file redundancy and generating MD5 checksums.

Cleaned temporary files on CSP and SSPs. Performed backup of scripts between boards.

Lockheed Martin PSF deconvolution app run successfully on GPU! Log files downlinked for analysis. 10 frame burst captured over New Orleans, LA!

Lockheed Martin PSF deconvolution app run on SSP.  Output successfully transferred to GPU!  First attempt at running GPU version of PSF deconvolution.

Debugging interface issue with neuro sensor.  Downlinked radiation-effects data from CSP and SSPs.  Lots to see here!  10-item schedule uplinked!

Transferred upload to GPU and began unpacking.  Testing new neuromorphic app and scripts.  30-item schedule from SHREC student James uplinked.

First CASPR upload file transfer successfully completed!  Successful verification of MD5 sums in /cf/ and NAND! 

Successful capture of 17 of 18 burst frames - channel2 missing one frame again.  Found workaround for memory management issue.

Almost a successful nine-frame burst!  Missing one frame in channel two.  Successful compression of 8.5-frame burst!  Testing large file transfer script and working to resolve memory management issue.

Uplinked 33-item schedule for the weekend.  Fixes to large transfer script and test with ~12 MB dummy data.  Successful recombination of full file on the ground!  MD5 checksums match!  First attempt at nine-frame burst capture.

Made minor modifications to SchedGen for date and confirmation downlink.  Uplinked 18-item schedule.  OCR process for first upload started - scheduled for GMT125!

v1 of SHREC student Mike’s SchedGen schedule generation script uploaded!  34-item list of target times from SHREC student Collin’s first targeting campaign uplinked.

26-item schedule uplinked!  Some manual captures by SHREC Center Director Dr. George!  Working on large file transfer script to simplify burst downlink.

Captured another burst over western Montana.  Testing compression of frames for downlink.  However, we’re only getting compression ratios of ~0.5.

First successful burst on both SSPs from multiple imagers after AutoSR script adjustments!  81-item schedule uploaded!  

30-item schedule uplinked and verified.  Successfully captured burst of six images to SSP0!  No images captured to SSP1 and no transfer of files to CSP.

SHREC student Mike grabbed frames of Mexico, Pittsburgh (though cloudy), France (coast), and Sicily!  20-item schedule uplinked.  TF v1.14.0 and CV2 v3.2.0 verified functional on the GPU

35-item schedule uploaded - double-visit of Dusseldorf, lots of US targets!

Performing calibration and testing of targeting system accuracy now that most bugs have been resolved.

GPU is healthy and active with valid OpenCL at reasonably high temparatures!  Uplinking new 46-item target list with no general automation to check behavior.

The Space GPU is alive!  CLINFO shows a valid GPU device!

Uploaded 66-item schedule with lots of worldwide coverage!  New method seems to have fixed the duplication bug!

Further attempts to fire ERMs.  More Lockheed Martin app runs and attempts at large file downlink.

First successful NAND recovery run from GPU to SSP0!  Two more successful Lockheed Martin app runs with log files downlinked.  Downlinked upset data from CSP, SSP0, and SSP1.

50-item schedule uplink with new strategy to avoid conflicts with naive automation. Checked scrubber logs and seeing some interesting results thus far.

First successful commanding of the GPU! GPU device is detected and functional!

Successful GPU powerup and interfacing! Still working on command and data transfer to and from the GPU. Further Lockheed Martin app runs.

First successful run of HOTS neuromorphic classification in space! Further LM app runs with output data compression to assist with large file downlink attempts.

Further Lockheed Martin app runs and efforts toward large file downlink of results.  Successfully integrated naive automation with schedule manager.

Further Lockheed Martin app runs.  Working on integrating naive automation with scheduled targets to prevent interference.

40-item schedule uplinked, including targeting for Singapore, Dubai, and Sydney!  Testing preservation of some images in NAND to prevent missing downlink during loss of signal.

Further gimbal attempts and some manual imaging.

First successful run of Lockheed Martin PSF deconvolution app on orbit!  Working on large file downlink for the output.

First successful image scheduling!  Continued work toward GPU powerup.

Ejected release modules triggered!  First attempt to open the gimbal.  Trying different torque settings.

Back after twelve days offline due to payload anomaly.  Naive automation restarted.

First successful test of on-orbit task scheduling!

Downlinked first set of radiation-effects data from both SSPs!  Experiencing artifacting with some images.

Downlinked first set of radiation-effects data from CSP!  Also verified correct receipt of ISS timing.

Captured an excellent shot over a coastal town in Panama with a visible marina.  Beginning attempts to power on the GPU.

Initial naive automation showing excellent results!  Imaging attempts of South America and London.  Power mode safed for overnight cooldown.

Single-frame tests continue to work nicely.  Sun elevation angle makes higher exposures necessary early and late in the day.  Night-mode imaging is unsuccessful even at very long exposure times.  Thermals heating up.  Fixed a few small parser issues.

Tried for night-mode imaging.  Also verified ISS timing and command delay.

Single frame capture was successful!  Conducted some exposure time calibration.  Settled on 350 µs for the time being.

Completed sed adjustments to autoFrame script.  Frame capture is successful, but we are having some issues with automatic downlink.  Continuing to investigate neuromorphic sensor crashes, but LSUSB and DMESG look great!

Working to remedy empty data file issue from neuromorphic sensor.  Also reworking some aliveness test scripts.

Received non-empty neurodata, but still nothing distinguishable.  Fixed relative pathing issue with some commands.

Captured 10, 30, 45, and 60 second records of neuromorphic event data.  Thermals still looking great.  Aliveness test successful!  Prep and compute power modes operate as expected.

First nominal commanding of CASPR! General CSP commands are functional. Power status is safe with all off as expected.  uCSP thermal reporting is working through UART.