anybody expert on Cubesat??

[tayebeh]

hi
i am new here and i have a question (i`m not even sure whether i should write it on thise page or somewhere else...dont really have time to figure out how to use this site properly) nyway...what i wanna know is someone who is familiar with "CubeSats" and has workes on it. I need some help to find some details and challanges on cubesats....
thanks

 

[SiberianTiger]

Can you be more specific, tayebeh? What information are you looking for? There's a lot of open information in English, you just have to formulate your questions right.

 

[Rtyh-12]

I could help...if I knew what cubesats is...

 

[Urwumpe]

Cubesats are just small cube shaped nanosats, 10x10x10 cm in size and maximal 1.33 kg heavy.

You can pack quite a lot of payload into them despite the small size, but better quickly forget adding any propulsion system.

There are many size classes based on the basic cubesat - 1U = 10x10x10 cm³, 2U = 20x10x10 cm³ 3U = 30x10x10 cm³. The launch costs are about $80,000 for one, making them pretty attractive for universities.

Designing a cubesat is not different to designing a large satellite, all that is different is the scale. You usually buy the bus from the shelf and install your scientific payload into a basic cubesat kit.

This is for example, how a 3U cubesat looks like - take the electrical power plugs in the background for scale.

And, unless you already know it:

This is the official homepage of the Cubesat program:

http://www.cubesat.org/

 

[Rtyh-12]

Cute little satellite. Love it! I can't believe I didn't know what it was before...although I heard about it.

 

[beamrider]

There is a Cubesat forum (see the links):

http://cubesat.ifastnet.com/forum
http://cubesat.ifastnet.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=1

Take a look at it and ask questions there. Somebody will help you.

 

[Maquis]

You're still looking for that data?