OpTA Logbook

Working log for the OpTA build.

2026-03-10

Defined cycle 1 in linear.app for my project management: opta-model is the first project, and this week we’ll be implementing the first radiometric / SNR model for feeding the optimizer aftwerwards.
Researched existing open source software. PROOF would have been ideal, but it’s not open source. So we’re going to build a simulator using skyfield and standard SNR calculations.
Wrote mission and system documents defining what we’re building and how it will work.
Started building the SNR model. Found interesting work by Tim Flohrer: Optical Survey Strategies and their Application to Space Surveillance
added a plant to our workspace :)