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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 :)

2026-03-06
- Goal: Create dedicated public OpTA logbook page
- Hardware/software changes: Added
opta-logbook.mdand linked it under Projects - Validation done: Manual file and menu check
- Result: Logbook page now reachable from Projects
- Issues: None
- Next step: Start adding nightly build and observation entries