CubeSat Missions

CubeSat missions and open-source satellite projects with public schematics, software, documentation or mission logs. Reading a flown design is the cheapest engineering you will ever do, and several of these teams have published exactly what went wrong.

Open-Source (partially or fully)

• AcubeSAT (landing page)
• AlbertaSat (multiple missions, landing page)
• Alpha CubeSat (landing page)
• Artemis CubeSat Kit (multiple missions, landing page)
• BIRDS (multiple missions, landing page)
• Build a CubeSat (in development, not launched yet. Landing page)
• CubeSat roundup
• DelfiSpace (Delfi-PQ PocketQube and the PQ9 bus, TU Delft. Landing page)
• Eagle-2 (early PocketQube, Bob Twiggs, 20 months on orbit)
• ECE³SAT
• EQUiSat
• FlapKit (kit, not launched yet. Landing page)
• FOSSASAT (PocketQube, multiple missions)
• FrontierSat (CTS-SAT-1) (landing page, mission log)
• GASPACS (Utah State, open comms spec and decoder. Landing page)
• HuskySat (landing page)
• KENSAT (not launched yet, landing page)
• MOVE-II (TU Munich, launched Dec 2018)
• NyanSat (in development, not launched yet. Landing page)
• ORCASat (landing page and YouTube)
• OreSat
• OSSI
• PocketQube roundup
• Project Shadow Flight (in development, not launched yet. Landing page)
• PROVES (kit, flown on multiple missions)
• PWSat (landing page)
• PyCubed-Mini (1P PocketQube platform, CMU RExLab; first flown as PROMETHEUS-1, Jan 2025)
• PyCubed (OSHW EPS and OBC, flown on multiple missions)
• Quetzal-1 (landing page)
• RGSat (development stalled, not launched yet)
• SAMWISE
• SanoSat-1
• Sapling (Stanford SSI mission log with per-mission lessons learned)
• SATLLA (Ariel University pico-satellite platform, flown as SATLLA-2B)
• SBUDNIC
• SpaceLab UFSC (FloripaSat-1, GOLDS-UFSC/FloripaSat-2, Catarina constellation. Landing page)
• SUCHAI
• Tartan Artibeus (batteryless computational PocketQube, launched Jan 2022)
• UPSat, built with LibreCube

Publicly Documented

• ANTEL-SAT
• BINAR
• Delfi-C3 / Delfi-n3Xt (TU Delft heritage missions)
• EIRSAT (landing page)
• ESTCube (Tartu Observatory, multiple missions, extensive published papers)
• IEEE Open PocketQube Kit (UPC NanoSat Lab, open hardware specs plus wiki)
• MARMOTSat
• Orbit NTNU (multiple missions)
• Phoenix

SatNOGS Dashboard

Collection of current and past Grafana mission dashboards: SatNOGS Dashboards. Some are very helpful for getting a sense of real-world mission data: - AAUSAT4 - COSMO - QMR-KWT 2 - UMKA-1

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Any projects or missions missing? Please contribute.