The Kinéis and CNES teams worked together for ten days at the Kinéis Control Centre, on the command and control sequences sent to the Proto-Flight Model (PFM), installed in Hemeria's new clean room in Toulouse. These tests focused on the satellite's essential functions (platform and payload), in conjunction with the entire ground segment of the Kinéis system (Control Centre, Mission Centre and ground station).

The previous tests of the command-control sequences took place last July.

These tests with a flight model satellite enabled the satellite's operational command loop to be implemented. The very positive results demonstrate, among other things, the ability of Kinéis to:

- Activate/deactivate the magnetometer (an instrument that measures the satellite's position and enables its position to be corrected),
- Link passes over simulated ground stations with different telemetry (TM) and remote control (TC) frequencies,
- Load the flight software for the platform, IoT and AIS payloads, when the satellite is in nominal mode* and in survival mode**,
- Reboot the satellite in different configurations,
- Observe the actions carried out on the propulsion system, the Power Processing Unit (PPU), which completes the orbiting and station-keeping of the satellites.

*in nominal mode: conforming to a given reference

**survival mode: operating mode adopted by a spacecraft when the on-board control system is unable to eliminate a major anomaly

Next step: a "routine" technical qualification test (QT) with degraded ground and/or satellite scenarios