Don't know about that but Emily Stocker, who seems to be one of the main parties involved said the following:
Kevin Zari: Emily, does the ground have the ability to command anything to the satellite, or is it truly just a "it turns on and works, or doesn't" satellite. Please note, I have experience in troubleshooting space payloads.
Emily Stocker: No, we cannot communicate with it
Kevin Zari: presently ? or the capability doesn't exist?
Emily Stocker: As I said above, no telemetry. We are sending radio signals from the satellite to earth. Nothing from earth to satellite.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/491135804399695/permalink/562389037274371/
Speculation but, maybe a shut down command is the only thing that can be sent to it?
John KG4AKV
On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 2:42 PM, Bob WB4SON@gmail.com wrote:
Still might be speculation about no uplink capability. It is entirely possible that things are programmed to remain off until the spin stabilizes. And given statements that the antennas would deploy in 45 seconds, that doesn't sound like the sun is melting anything -- it might be a resistive wire that is heating the glue. Of course information like that would be nice to know and it would help others in the future.
There was correspondence to NASA indicating it had some uplink capability. Quoting the letter sent to the NASA mission manager:
- Structure
- Radio
- Solar Arrays (5, body mounted)
- Power System
- On-board Computer
- Deployable Antenna
- Camera
- School Payload (cross blessed by the pope)
"The spacecraft will be launched into LEO (400 km) from the International Space Station (ISS) in early December 2015. The antenna will deploy 45 minutes after deployment from the ISS. The spacecraft will take a photo of Earth every 30 seconds and will transmit it via the amateur radio band (slow scan television). If required, the spacecraft “shut down” command would be sent via the NASA Near Earth Network."
Fingers crossed that its just a matter of time.
73, Bob, WB4SON