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Pratham

India's first satellite built entirely by university students, measuring ionospheric total electron content over the Indian subcontinent.

e-st@r-II

Follow-on 1U CubeSat developed under ESA's Fly Your Satellite! program, flown on Arianespace Soyuz VS14.

e-st@r-I

Italy's first CubeSat, a 1U technology demonstrator testing an active magnetic attitude control system.

EQUULEUS

• Form factor6U CubeSat
• PropulsionLow-thrust water-based propulsion (AQUARIUS thruster)
• PayloadPHOENIX plasmasphere imaging camera; DELPHINUS micrometeoroid impact camera

6U deep-space CubeSat launched on NASA's Artemis I to demonstrate low-thrust trajectory control in the Earth-Moon system.

XI-IV

The world's first CubeSat to achieve successful on-orbit operation, and the longest-operating CubeSat in history.

HORYU-2

First spacecraft in the world to demonstrate 300V photovoltaic power generation in orbit.

GhanaSat-1 (BIRDS-1)

Ghana's first satellite, a 1U CubeSat built by Ghanaian students at Kyutech under the BIRDS-1 joint constellation program.

BEVO-2

• Form factor3U CubeSat
• Mass4.2 kg
• OrbitLow Earth orbit (deployed from ISS altitude, ~400 km)

3U CubeSat built by UT Austin's Texas Spacecraft Laboratory for GPS-based rendezvous and proximity-operations experiments as part of…

GASPACS

• Form factor1U CubeSat
• Dimensions10 x 10 x 10 cm
• Mass1.00 kg

1U CubeSat built entirely by Utah State University undergraduates to demonstrate a passive inflatable attitude-control boom.

FIREBIRD-II CubeSat

• Form factor1.5U CubeSat (pair)
• Dimensions10 x 10 x 15 cm
• MassUp to 2 kg per satellite

1.5U space-weather CubeSat pair built by Montana State University and University of New Hampshire to study relativistic electron…

AubieSat-1

• Form factor1U CubeSat
• Dimensions10 x 10 x 10 cm
• Mass1.03 kg

1U CubeSat built by Auburn University undergraduates, launched in 2011 as an amateur radio and ionospheric research satellite.

Delfi-C3

• Form factor3U CubeSat, 10 cm x 10 cm x 34 cm
• Mass2.2 kg
• Power2.4 W available, no onboard batteries (fully solar-dependent)

3U CubeSat and TU Delft's first satellite, the Netherlands' first nanosatellite, demonstrating thin-film solar cells and a battery-less…

SASSI2 (Student Aerothermal Spectrometer Satellite of Illinois and Indiana)

• Form factorCubeSat (Purdue CubeSat Lab standard bus)
• Mission focusBow-shock flow and radiation characterization during high-speed atmospheric flight
• ProgramPurdue CubeSat Lab, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics

CubeSat developed by Purdue's CubeSat Lab to characterize bow-shock flow and radiation during high-speed atmospheric flight.

Q-PACE (CubeSat Particle Aggregation and Collision Experiment)

• Form factor3U CubeSat
• Dimensions10 cm x 10 cm x 37.6 cm
• Mass3 kg

3U CubeSat built by UCF's Center for Microgravity Research to study low-velocity particle collisions relevant to planetesimal formation.

UMsat CubeSat

• Form factor1U (10 cm x 10 cm x 10 cm modular unit)
• ProgramUMsat, founded 2007
• Mission focusEarth imaging, remote sensing, climate data downlink

Student-built CubeSat developed through UMass Amherst's UMsat program for Earth imaging and remote-sensing missions.

RoInSpace CubeSat Development Services

• ServicesCubeSat development and engineering
• CountryRomania

Romanian InSpace Engineering (RISE) provides CubeSat development and engineering services supporting Romanian and European small satellite missions.

OTS Joint CubeSat Program

• TypeMultinational collaborative CubeSat program
• MembersOrganization of Turkic States nations

Organization of Turkic States joint CubeSat program supporting collaborative satellite development among member nations for space education and…

COSMOS Project CubeSat Initiative

• TypeCollaborative CubeSat project

International CubeSat collaboration project developing small satellite technology through academic and volunteer engineering contributions.