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Blog & Engineering Notes

Releases, post-mortems, customer letters, and the occasional opinion piece. Long-form where the topic deserves it.


Recent

12
May 2026
Customer letter

SLA changes, Q2 2026

A small but material change to our SLA on the downlink path. Why we are tightening the number and what it costs us.

04
May 2026
Hotfix

4.12.1 hotfix notes

A small but important hotfix addressing a telemetry desync under heavy burst downlink. Read before scheduling a contact.

28
Apr 2026
Engineering

What we learned rolling out Svalbard-2

A look back at the third ground-station cutover, the metrics, and the feedback. Photos, clips, and a small apology to the on-call rota.

21
Apr 2026
Release

4.12.0 deployment complete

No downtime issues, two minor rollback candidates, and the post-mortem of an 8-minute latency spike in eu-west.