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Electronic Systems Laboratory (ESL) – Satellite Engineering

• LocationDepartment of E&E Engineering, Stellenbosch University
• ExpertiseADCS, OBC, satellite systems engineering, small satellites
• Notable workSUNSAT (1999), ZACube collaboration

The Electronic Systems Laboratory (ESL) at Stellenbosch University is a world-recognized center for small satellite development in Africa.…

Satellite Research Program

• Research areasRemote sensing, satellite communication, space weather
• Application focusNorth-East India flood monitoring, land use, disaster management
• PartnersISRO NESAC

IIT Guwahati’s Satellite Research Program is conducted through the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, the Department of…

IIST Student Satellite Program

• AffiliationDepartment of Space, Government of India
• ProgramsB.Tech, M.Tech, PhD in Space Science & Technology
• CollaboratorISRO – all major centers

IIST students develop small satellites in direct collaboration with ISRO. The institute’s aerospace and avionics programs integrate satellite…

Team Anant CubeSat Program

• Satellite classCubeSat (1U–3U)
• ProgramISRO Student Satellite Program
• InstitutionBITS Pilani, Rajasthan, India

Team Anant is BITS Pilani’s official student satellite team, developing CubeSats under ISRO’s Student Satellite Program. The team…

UNISAT-7

• Launch year2021
• TypeCubeSat deployer / Technology demonstration
• DeveloperGAUSS group, Sapienza University

Seventh generation, continued the UNISAT deployer and Earth observation heritage.

HORYU-2

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

List of CubeSats

• Type0.25U to 16U
• Aau CUBESAT cospar id (NORAD ID)2003-031G (27846)
• Aau CUBESAT type1U

A comprehensive list of CubeSats, nanosatellites primarily used by universities for research missions in low Earth orbits, detailing…

BEVO-2

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

FIREBIRD-II CubeSat

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

HiakaSat

55 kg micro-satellite built by the Hawaii Space Flight Laboratory for hyperspectral remote sensing, flown on the ORS-4…

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.

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.

MinXSS (Miniature X-ray Solar Spectrometer)

• Mission typeNon-EO
• Launch date06 Dec 2015
• End of life date14 Feb 2019

MinXSS is a 3U CubeSat built primarily by University of Colorado Boulder students at LASP to measure solar…

SatFab 3U CubeSat with Novel Phase Change Material Thermal Control System

• CUBESAT size3U (10x10x30 centimeters)
• Thermal control systemNovel phase change material-based
• GPSCompletely in-house developed

A 3U CubeSat developed by the University of Maryland's SatFab team, featuring a novel phase change material-based thermal…

Ut ProSat-1

• Form factor3U CubeSat
• Primary payloadNASA Langley Research Center’s ultralightweight deployable boom technology
• Avionics systemIn-house built (power, battery, radio, communications units)

The Ut ProSat-1 is a 3U CubeSat developed by Virginia Tech students to test NASA's ultralightweight deployable boom…

Optus (satellite) series

A comprehensive list and description of the Optus satellite series, including A, B, C, D, and 10/11 classes,…

AIRSAT SAR Satellite Platform

• Payload typeKu-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)
• ResolutionBetter than 1 m
• AntennaUnfolded cylindrical parabolic SAR antenna (first global application)

Small SAR satellite platform with a novel unfolded cylindrical parabolic Ku-band antenna, first flown as AIRSAT-01/02 in September…

AOS Production Line

• Facility locationMerritt Island, Florida, USA (secondary line: Toulouse, France)
• Production startMid-2019
• Peak production rate2 satellites per day (achieved January 2020)

High-rate satellite manufacturing system at Merritt Island, Florida, capable of producing two OneWeb satellites per day using assembly-line…