How to build CubeSats (small satellites)
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Electronic Hardware, On-Board Computer
- On-Board Computer
- Easy to use microcontroller for a beginner in Cubesats
- What is PC/104 or PC104?
- Accelerometer acting as a CubeSat Kill Switch
- How to ground circuits in a cubesat if no Earth is present?
- About burning fuses in a predefined sequence in a CubeSat
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Transmitters, Receivers, Antennas
- On Board Communications System, Ground Station
- List of frequencies, baud rates, communication protocols used by cubesats
- What do I need to build a minimal Cubesat Ground Station
- "Cubesat Space Protocol" - information required
- Communicating Wirelessly With Two Transceivers (Satellite Communication
- Free Electronic Circuit Simulator
- Link Budget
- About choosing uplink and downlink frequencies for CubeSats
- For what purpose do CubeSats transmit a CW beacon?
- Ordinary mobile phones as cubesat transceivers
- How can a cubesat communicate with the ground station ?
- Ground station VHF UHF antenna for cubesats
- Maximum data rate transmitted by a cubesat: 9600 bps, more?
- Buy ground station capable to decode signals from CubeSats
- Best cubesat antenna able to operate at 2.4 GHz?
- The radio link with cubesats and AX.25 protocol
- Downlink frequencies and modulation techniques in cubesats
- I want to build a small transceiver
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Solar Panels, Batteries, Electrical Power System
- Electrical Power System
- Affordable Triangular Solar Cells for CubeSats
- Cubesat Sun detector with photodiode
- Power control and distribution card for ROBUSTA cubesat
- High efficiency solar cells
- About a battery charger with solar panels and cubesats
- Deployable Solar Panels on a 1U CubeSat
- Solar Panel Simulator for Cubesats
- Affordable solar panels for CubeSat pico-satellites?
- What battery types did you use for your cubesat?
- Maximum Power Point Tracker, Solar Panels and Cubesats
- Difference - solar powered satellite - solar sail satellite?
Software
- CubeSat Toolbox, for use with MATLAB
- A configurable beacon decoder software for CubeSats
- PC 104 cubesat computer running Windows
- Cubesat kits much too expensive for most pockets
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CubeSat Mechanical and Thermal Analysis
- Mechanical Structure, Thermal Analysis
- Reliable cubesat kill switch - mechanical drawings
- Cubesat model made in SketchUp (free 3D modeling program)
- Looking for plans, drawings for a machined cubesat chassis
- Chromate conversion coating (alodine) and cubesats
- Anyone Use COMSOL for Thermal Analysis?
- About Cubesat Structural 3D Modeling in SolidWorks
- Cubesat model made of plywood
- How much does a P-POD cubesat deployer cost?
- The best design for CubeSats external rigid framework?
- What temperature range I can expect in low earth orbit?
- Antenna deployment mechanism
- About the Remove Before Flight Pin
- What is a P-POD?
- What is a kill switch good for in a cubesat satellite?
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Orbital Mechanics and ADCS
- Attitude Determination and Control System - ADCS
- what are the GPS receiver that we can implement in ADCS?
- which components or devices can we found in the ADCS?
- Shortest period of an earth satellite in circular orbit?
- What is a magnetorquer?
- The most simple attitude control system for cubesats
- Why are cubesats deployed in polar orbits?
- Sun-Synchronous Orbit = no eclipse period for CubeSats?
- What kind of orbit do CubeSats normally have?
- Can CubeSats put in danger other coorbital large satellites?
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CubeSat General
- The abbreviations ADCS, OBC, EPS, COM, MECH and Cubesats
- Smallest rocket possible that can launch a cubesat?
- How to get rid of Clyde Space and other nuisances?
- Some ideas regarding payloads that cubesat can handle.
- Useful search strings for cubesat related items
- Some payload proposals for UKube-1 (UK Space Agency)
- 1st IAA Conference on University Satellites MissionsJAN
- Have you ever been involved in a Cubesat project?
- A list of CubeSat component providers
- A list of articles related to CubeSat satellites
- When is the next CubeSat workshop?
- Are Picosat, Pico Satellite and CubeSat synonyms?
- Some general advices for designing a good CubeSat
- Smallest satellite ever launched?
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