> "Failure to maintain a sun-pointing orientation could deprive the spacecraft of the ability to generate power using its solar panels."
Good luck anyway!
May I ask what the primary constraint is for not adding a small panel that could at least enable bootstrap functionality?
The risk mitigation isn't worth the mass? Too complicated to implement?
We need to deploy the panels to maximize the solar collection area and thus power for the payloads. And there simply isn't enough space on the other panels to put "backup solar cells" :)
Some pictures and more info about the mission here: https://www.tu.berlin/en/about/profile/press-releases-news/n...