For student CubeSat teams
The only diagnostic tool built for student CubeSat teams.
For the student lead keeping a satellite alive between ground-station passes — a small team that turns over every year, and no budget for industrial software.
Symptom
Battery voltage drops after every eclipse.
Ranked diagnosis
- 1. Battery cell degradationlikely
- 2. Solar panel misalignmentpossible
- 3. Thermal sensor faultunlikely
Recovery: reduce non-essential load and reorient the panel array before the next pass.
How it works
Describe the symptom
Tell it what’s going wrong, in plain words — no telemetry required to start.
Drop the telemetry
Add a CSV export from your ground-station pass, if you have one on hand.
Get the diagnosis
A ranked list of likely causes and the recovery procedure for the next pass.
Describe what's wrong. Get back what to do.
Paste the symptom in plain words, or drop your CSV telemetry export. Forged Smelter turns it into a ranked diagnosis and the recovery procedure to run before the next pass.
Symptom
"Battery voltage drops after every eclipse"
Telemetry CSV
telemetry_pass_142.csv (optional)
Ranked diagnosis
Battery cell degradation — likely
Recovery procedure
Reduce load, reorient before next pass
Built for the team that changes every year.
The student lead or faculty advisor running a university CubeSat team — a satellite already in orbit or close to launch, a small ground station, a handful of members who rotate every year, and no budget for industrial software.
One plan for the whole team.
A single team subscription, sold from the site behind a sign-in through hosted checkout. It covers diagnoses within a reasonable use limit — whether it's the student lead checking in or the whole rotation.
Team plan
Sold behind a sign-in, through hosted checkout
Diagnoses included within a reasonable use limit