As of February 21, 2024, STF1 was tracked to have deorbited and disintegrated in the atmosphere. This marked around 1830 days of in-orbit operations for the craft! We were able to continue passes to communicate and collect data from the craft until February 16th, when our final communications with the craft occurred. We’ll close out the mission with some of the best pictures we’ve taken over the years! It has been an amazing journey for the team to be able to build from the simulation to something that was able to fly and gather scientific data for around 5 years, and proving the value of digital twin technology for assuring smooth operations in flight by testing things on Earth.
STF-1 Takes a Picture of Clouds, Snow, and Ice over Northern Russia. The day/night terminator can also be seen in this picture, taken on 9/17/2020 at 12:23 UTC
07-2/6-2020
This composite, annotated image shows two pictures taken by STF-1 of almost the same Hudson Bay, Canada location on different days.
06-18-2020
STF-1 Captures another gorgeous sunrise as it flies past Bolivia and
Brazil
STF-1 Takes a look at the Caribbean and Dominican
Republic
06-10-2020
STF-1 Takes a Picture of Eureka, Nanavut, Canada
06-13-2020
STF-1 Captures cloud cover over the Pacific and the west coast of Peru
and Chile on May 29, 2020
Clouds over the Caribbean on May 27, 2020. Relative water depth is
visible: Lighter blue/green is shallower; dark blue is deeper.
05-27-2020
"Rainbow of Colors" - From an accidental lens effect
05-13-2020
04-29-2020
04-07-2020
STF-1 Takes another beautiful photograph while over Antarctica!
03-13-2020 STF-1: Mexico
06-25-2019
Moon Photobomb
Laptev Sea - Arctic Ocean over Russia
12-20-2019
02-25-2020
Looking West Over the Caribbean
03-02-2020
Pacific Ocean Off of the Coast of South America
02-03-2020
Moon
