Couple days late, but I'm always busy and it's the holidays, 🤦 which I'm not looking forward to at all this year...
Anyway, 12/21/21 marked the one year anniversary(or first birthday) since the official founding of OrbITech(and how long I've been playing SR2). And we got the best birthday present we could ask for: finally achieving orbit with the Magellanic 1! It took a great bit of work and determination to pull it off, but it worked. Even the payload deployed perfectly, although that portion was omitted from our livestream due to the high-speed telemetry data's inability to follow the curvature of Droo's surface as the upper stage orbits beyond the horizon. It then switches to a lower-speed connection using multiple ground stations for communication during the orbit, but it's much slower, since it's about 30 more minutes of raw video/audio data and flight logs. Then we have to process the data and it all takes time.
Basically, we have more footage from the test that includes payload deployment that we plan to share with the public once it's been processed, as well as some general flight data.
Thanks for all the support from everyone during this wild year! I have big plans for this next year,
YamomZbox