ORBITAL GROUND STATION

NODE: CTF_Satellite_Status  //  DOWNLINK: 2.4GHz  //  STATUS: LOCKED

Mission Briefing

Contact with satellite CTF_Satellite_Status is nominal, but its payload is RF-locked. The bird only unlocks when its receiver sniffs a valid uplink unlock key on its command channel.

We captured a full flash dump of the flight computer (ESP32). Reverse it, recover the uplink unlock key from the receiver command table, and transmit it below to unlock the payload.

> last downlink telemetry: > LOCKED P:0 L:0041 T:0512 > RX Sniffed: (awaiting valid uplink)

Firmware Dump

Flight-computer flash image (app partition), pulled over UART.

⬇ satellite_dump.bin

sha256 on the download page · analyze with strings / radare2 / ghidra

RF Uplink Console

Transmit the recovered uplink unlock key to the satellite receiver.