Minimum Success Criteria

The minimum criteria for a successful mission follow, taken as relaxations of the above criteria.

1. The payload must achieve orbit for at least two months.
2. The telemetry must provide recoverably noise-free data for at least 50% of the time in orbit.
3. Any failure of the payload door or solar panels must occult less than 50% of the collecting area, and must be calibrated.
4. The attitude must be verified to within .
5. The experiment must provide useful data for at least seconds.