SharkSat aims to demonstrate on-orbit mission agility and recently spent two weeks orbiting the Earth, showing resilience through the South Atlantic Anomaly, a region known to cause LEO satellites to lose communication and their hardware to brown-out.
SharkSat validated the ability to add new software to an in-flight satellite from a terrestrial ground station with its multi-processor architecture, which supports space-to-space and space-to-ground communication.
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