CubeSats have a lot of advantages. They are small, inexpensive, and easily reproducible. But those advantages also come with ...

We’ve written about open source CubeSats before, and also a port-mortem analysis of a failed mission that contains some good lessons. Thanks to [Jeremy Grosser] for the tip.

They become even more critical when mission planners design missions ... With all the development going on in the world of ...

The flight design builds on the heritage of the CSSWE, MinXSS and QB50-Challenger CubeSats which have been developed at the University of Colorado Boulder and all demonstrated mission success. This ...

NASA’s Mars InSight mission is moving along nicely ... was a long shot for NASA from the start. The tiny CubeSat spacecraft were designed to track InSight’s position so that NASA could ...

There are also sessions on the concept and mission of a CubeSat, a type of mini satellite ... writing can be bold in conveying themes and ideas, but it is also important to “slow down” and ...

It’s the ultimate bootstrap for anyone else designing a CubeSat, and hopefully provides enough clues to avoid some of the same issues. Even though the mission had problems, it did achieve a lot ...