I'm curious, was solar power used to charge the battery or was it truly 100% battery powered?
They are (all still working 5 years in) solar powered, with a battery for eclipse-side operation, lots of hardware detail from here for FUNcube-1:
funcube.org.uk/space-segment/
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I'm curious, was solar power used to charge the battery or was it truly 100% battery powered?
They are (all still working 5 years in) solar powered, with a battery for eclipse-side operation, lots of hardware detail from here for FUNcube-1:
funcube.org.uk/space-segment/