• Under normal conditions FINCH will
  • Without command: FINCH maintains itself alive & can only enter by its own
    • Charging mode
    • Safety mode
• Command from ground is required for anything else such as:
  • Putting/scheduling itself to go in imaging mode
  • Putting/scheduling itself to into downlink mode

Nominal Mission Cycle Example

Anomaly Mission Cycle Example

ex: failure during imaging

→Will stay in safety until ground takes it out of it