What better way to celebrate nearly two months on orbit than with the first image captured by TshepisoSat that shows the earth from space. What makes the image even more special is that, as mentioned before, the satellite is not stabilised in three-axes. Images are captured without any control of where the camera is pointing and so far images have either been of empty space or the sun.
The satellite was commanded from the ground station to switch on its camera and capture the image. The image was then transferred to the on-board storage and the camera turned off. The image was then downloaded from the satellite to the ground station.
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