Sun? On my Sat?

Satellite Bus

"We've uncovered a strange device listening on a port I've connected you to on our satellite. At one point one of our engineers captured the firmware from it but says he saw it get patched recently. We've tried to communicate with it a couple times, and seems to expect a hex-encoded string of bytes, but all it has ever sent back is complaints about cookies, or something. See if you can pull any valuable information from the device and the cookies we bought to bribe the device are yours! "

Solution Statistics

bcrypted answer
observations	257
solves	4
points	324
average solve seconds	14314 seconds, or about 4 hours
stddev solve time	5600 seconds, or about 2 hours

Solutions Over Time

solving teams:

solved by 4 teams

team	solved at	it took
PPP	2020-05-24 19:36:21 UTC	7870 seconds, or 2.19 hours
Poland Can Into Space	2020-05-24 20:28:36 UTC	11589 seconds, or 3.22 hours
PFS	2020-05-24 22:10:53 UTC	17656 seconds, or 4.9 hours
Solar Wine	2020-05-24 22:50:29 UTC	20141 seconds, or 5.59 hours