I've been in mission control for a satellite when this is going on. It is the worst stress I have experienced in my professional career. Things sorted out in the end (some bias calibrations were just plain wrong). I hope for the best for this team!
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...