Focus is on magnetometer measurements and characterization. In addition, OPAL has been enabled to perform digipeating functions for the APRS network. Opal's current position can be found by clicking on the world map above. 365 days and counting. The picosatellite mission summary .
Latest operations is found on our ops page .
Past news announcements. The design for OPAL was started in early April of 1995. However, since this is only SSDL's second satellite, development time has been extended. The satellite's secondary payloads are an accelerometer testbed and a magnetometer testbed, which will perform component characterization. Contact the webmaster .