In an average satellite the payload is often as complicated as all other systems combined. Berlin Space Technologies GmbH we solve this challenge as a team.
Here you can see an end to end test of the imaging chain; camera head, data processing unit, ground interface, image processing. All of these need to work hand in hand to deliver the final result.
The eagle eyed readers will have spotted it; the optical instrument used in this test is a Qualification Model (QM) of our HRVI-6HD 2nd generation. The QM has one of their two eyes replaced with a structural model.