List of CubeSats

The following is a list of CubeSats, nanosatellites used primarily by universities for research missions, typically in low Earth orbits. Some CubeSats became their country's first national satellite.

Research and development

• An ambitious project is the QB50, an international network of 50 CubeSats for multi-point by different Universities and other teams, in-situ measurements in the lower thermosphere (90–350 km) and re-entry research. QB50 is an initiative of the Von Karman Institute and is funded by the European Union. Double-unit ("2-U") CubeSats (10x10x20 cm) are foreseen, with one unit (the 'functional' unit) providing the usual satellite functions and the other unit (the 'science' unit) accommodating a set of standardised sensors for lower thermosphere and re-entry research. 35 CubeSats are envisaged to be provided by universities in 19 European countries, 10 by universities in the US, 2 by universities in Canada, 3 by Japanese universities, 1 by an institute in Brazil, and others. Ten double or triple CubeSats are foreseen to serve for in-orbit technology demonstration of new space technologies. All 50 CubeSats may be launched together on a single Cyclone-4 launch vehicle in February 2016. The Request for Proposals (RFP) for the QB50 CubeSat was released on February 15, 2012.
• AAU CubeSat, by Aalborg University: The Danish students in this project, beginning in the summer of 2001, designed a satellite that would evaluate the technology and demonstrate the capabilities of the CubeSat concept. In order to successfully show the technology to the public, the team installed a camera on board the spacecraft, and outfitted it with a magnetically based attitude control system. But upon reaching orbit, the radio signals were weaker than expected and the batteries failed after only one month of semi-operational activity.
• AAUSAT-II is the second student-built CubeSat built and operated by students from Aalborg University in Denmark. It was launched 28 April 2008 05:54 UTC from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in India on a PSLV rocket. AAUSAT-II carries a radiation sensor.
• AAUSAT3 is the third student-built CubeSat from Aalborg University in Denmark. The primary payload is an Automatic Identification System (AIS) receiver which primary task is to receive AIS data from ships around Greenland. Launched 25 February 2013 on the Indian PSLV C20. AAUSAT3 is the very first student satellite operating AIS receivers and the first demonstration of the AAU developed CSP communication protocol - internally on CANBUS on spacelink at UHF (FSK, 9600/19200). The mission has been successful.
• PW-Sat, by Warsaw University of Technology: This experiment revolves around CubeSats themselves. The test will involve developing a method to deorbit CubeSats by engaging an atmospheric drag device. The mission's focus will be the testing of this foil device; its deployment to intentionally bring the satellite back into the thicker portion of Earth's atmosphere to bring the mission to an end. The satellite is Poland's first. The satellite was delivered to orbit on the maiden flight of the European Space Agency's new launch vehicle in 2012.
• OUFTI-1, by the University of Liège and I.S.I.L (Haute École de la Province de Liège): This is a 1-unit CubeSat that is being built by Belgian students. The name is an acronym for Orbital Utility For Telecommunication Innovation. This Belgian satellite was planned to launch on the maiden flight of Vega. The goal of the project is to develop experience in the different aspects of satellite design and operation. In the communications portion of the device, the academic team will be experimenting with the D-STAR digital voice mode and communications protocol that is popular with amateur radio operators. The satellite has a mass of just 1 kilogram and will utilize a UHF uplink and a VHF downlink.
• CubeSat TestBed 1, by Boeing: Boeing successfully completed all of its design and operational goals with its first nanosatellite. It was built and flown to explore the possibilities with the new CubeSat standard. Boeing satellites are usually much larger; a Boeing 601 or 702 satellite has 1,000 times the mass of their 1 kilogram CubeSat.
• InnoSAT, by Astronautic Technology Sdn Bhd: This CubeSat will test attitude control and navigation technologies developed by five Malaysian universities.
• XSAS, by University of Michigan: This project, based on graduate research, will house an accordion folded solar array inside a 1U CubeSat. The array will extend into a long solar panel once in orbit, thereby increasing by many times the power available to an attached CubeSat.
• Clyde Space is a company that started development of subsystems for CubeSats in 2005, including electrical power systems, attitude control systems, and pulsed-plasma thruster propulsion systems. In 2010 the UK Space Agency awarded Clyde Space the UK's first CubeSat mission, UKube-1, a 3U CubeSat due to launch mid-2013.
• Aerojet began developing a propulsion system for cubesats in 2011 that occupies a 1U baseline volume and readily integrates with other CubeSat platforms to create modular, fully mobile cubesats. Dubbed "CHAMPS", this system utilizes chemical propulsion and offers significantly more total impulse compared to cold gas propulsion systems.
• Alta SpA develops electric and chemical propulsion systems suited for satellites of various size. A critical analysis of different electric propulsion systems was carried out by the company in 2011. The IL-FEEP thruster, a field emission, linear slit propulsion system based on the FEEP heritage, is specially suited for CubeSats and is provided in a compact, 1U version for use on 2U or 3U missions.
• The Vermont Lunar CubeSat launched by Vermont Technical College and funded in part by a grant from Vermont Space Grant Consortium and NASA.
• OPUSAT was launched to test Lithium-ion capacitor technology in space.
• e-st@r (Educational Satellite @ Polytechnic University of Turin) is a miniaturized satellite built by the Polytechnic University of Turin. It was launched into Low Earth Orbit on the maiden flight of Arianespace's Vega rocket on the 13th Feb 2012. It is a 1-U CubeSat design weighing 1 kg. The launch was a multi-payload mission shared with LARES, ALMASat-1, Goliat, MaSat-1, PW-Sat, ROBUSTA, UniCubeSat-GG and Xatcobeo.

Earth remote sensing

• Quakesat, by Quakefinder: This satellite was set out on a mission to help scientists improve earthquake detection. The students are hoping that the detection of magnetic signals may have value in showing the onset of an earthquake. The company that put the satellites together is from Palo Alto, California. They're gathering data on the extremely low magnetic field fluctuations that are associated with earthquakes to help better understand this area of study that has its skeptics. The 30 June 2003 deployment of Quakesat was alongside other university CubeSats and one commercial CubeSat. The launch occurred on a Rockot rocket from Russia’s Plesetsk launch site.
• SwissCube, by École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne: This project has been selected to fly aboard a new expendable launch system being developed for Arianespace jointly by the Italian Space Agency and the European Space Agency. The rocket is called Vega, and takes its name from the star. The Swiss students will conduct experiments with the air glow phenomenon in the Earth's atmosphere. The satellite's downlink radio will transmit at 437 MHz; the uplink will be at 145 MHz.
• PLUME, by the University of Leicester: They plan to launch a CubeSat that will detect cosmic dust, and will be the first English CubeSat to be launched. The students began their project at the beginning of 2007 and if successful will have a method for scientists to look at the smallest ever dust particles from space.
• Firefly, by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and Siena College: Terrestrial gamma-ray flashes have been detected from the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory after its launch in 1991. Scientists have theories about their origins and this new CubeSat will have instruments that will observe both photons and electrons simultaneously. This, in turn, will allow scientists to better determine if lightning is the source of the gamma-ray bursts.
• ELFIN (Electron Losses In Fields INvestigation) is a 3U CubeSat currently in development by the University of California, Los Angeles. ELFIN will study electron losses in the magnetosphere using a fluxgate magnetometer and two energetic particle detectors (one for ions and one for electrons. ELFIN is a participant in the 8th iteration of the University Nanosatellite Program and is projected to be ready to fly by late 2015.
• KSAT2 (Hayato-2) by Kagoshima University: A climatology satellite with RF water vapor sensor for improved prediction of rain and tornado.
• ExoCube (CP-10) is a space-weather satellite by PolySat. It measures the in-situ densities of various elements in the Earth's exosphere over incoherent scatter radar.

Space tether

NASA's GeneSat 1

• MAST, by Tethers Unlimited: The Multi-Application Survivable Tether experiment, based in the United States, was launched 17 April 2007 aboard a Dnepr rocket. This 1 km multistrand, interconnected tether (Hoytether) is being used to test and prove the long-term survivability for tethers in space. The three MAST pico-satellites ejected from the P-POD successfully, but the communications system had difficulties, and the separation mechanism did not function properly, preventing full deployment of the tether. Nonetheless, the experiment operated for over a month and downloaded over 2 MB of data on tethered satellite dynamics as well as images of the tether. While Stanford University formed the academic portion of the team, Tethers Unlimited, from Seattle, Washington, formed the commercial portion of the team.
• STARS (Kukai), by the Kagawa Satellite Development Project at Kagawa University, Japan: The Space Tethered Autonomous Robotic Satellite (STARS) mission launched 23 January 2009 as a secondary payload on a H-IIA launch. After launch, the satellite was named KUKAI, and consisted of two subsatellites, "Ku" and "Kai," to be linked by a 5-meter tether. It was successfully separated from the rocket and transferred into the planned orbit. See also STARS-II microsatellite follow-up with longer (300m) tether.
• Tempo3, by The Mars Society: This operation is called the Tethered Experiment for Mars inter-Planetary Operations and is meant to demonstrate the generation of artificial gravity. The project seeks to enhance knowledge about long term space flight.

Biology

• GeneSat 1, by the NASA Ames Research Center: In December 2006, a Minotaur launch vehicle carried this satellite into orbit from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility to carry out a genetics experiment. The team assembled the biological growth and analysis systems to perform experiments with E. coli bacteria. The project is not cheap by CubeSat standards: the total spent on the satellite and its experiments were $6 million before the launch took place. The goal is to establish methods for studying the genetic changes that come from being exposed to a space environment. The satellite was outfitted with a UHF beacon.

Other uses

• StudSat, first Indian satellite of Pico-Category was developed by a group of 35 students from Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, India, and was launched 12 July 2010 by Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle.
• Cubesat ROBUSTA, by Montpellier 2 University: A mission to test the effects of radiation on electronics. The goal is to specifically check the deterioration of electronic components based on bipolar transistors when exposed to the space radiation environment. The results of this experiment will be used to validate a test method proposed in the laboratory. The French satellite launched on the maiden flight of Vega in early 2012.
• TJ³Sat, by Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Alexandria, VA, which was the first CubeSat ever launched by high school students on November 19, 2013.
• Xatcobeo, by University of Vigo and Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial: The goal for this project is to test software defined radio and to experiment with solar panel deployment. The Spanish satellite launched on the maiden flight of Vega.
• CINEMA, a collaborative effort between the UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory, Imperial College London, Kyung Hee University, and the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico: The project's goal is to develop a cubesat that monitors space weather using a combination of magnetometers and particle detectors.
• A CubeSat Inflatable Deorbit Device, by Old Dominion University: This study describes a deployable aerodynamic drag device that can be incorporated in basic 1U CubeSat units that can meet the 25-year orbital lifetime constraint for initial orbit perigees of up to 900 km.
• The NEE-01 Pegaso launched by the Ecuadorian Space Agency in early 2013 was the first known cubesat able to transmit real time video from orbit and broadcast the live feed over the internet.
• INVADER (Artsat-1) launched by JAXA in 2014 to provide voice broadcast from orbit.

List of launched CubeSats

There are five types of CubeSats: 0.5U, 1U, 2U, 3U, and 6U. The number corresponds to the length of the CubeSat in decimetres. Width and Depth are normally ten centimetres, or one decimetre. A 6U Cubesat measures 1x2x3 decimetres.

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Name	COSPAR ID SATCAT №	Type	Organisation	Mission	Mission status	Launch Date (UTC)	Time	Launch Vehicle	Reentry date	Remarks
AeroCube-6		1U	Aerospace Corporation	Radiation studies in LEO		19 Jun 2014	19:11:11	Dnepr
UniSat 6	2014-033C	In-orbit CubeSat launcher	GAUSS	Deployed TigriSat, Lemur 1, ANTELSAT and AeroCube 6		19 Jun 2014	19:11:11	Dnepr
ExoCube		3U	Cal Poly PolySat	Space weather		31 Jan 2015	14:22	Delta II via ELaNa-X
FIREBIRD II		1.5U ×2	Montana State University University of New Hampshire Los Alamos National Laboratory Aerospace Corp	Space weather		31 Jan 2015	14:22	Delta II via ELaNa-X		Focused Investigations of Relativistic Electron Burst, Intensity, Range, and Dynamics (FIREBIRD) II
GRIFEX		3U	University of Michigan NASA JPL	Atmospheric studies technology		31 Jan 2015	14:22	Delta II via ELaNa-X		Geostationary Coastal and Air Pollution Events (GEO-CAPE) Read-Out Integrated Circuit (ROIC) In-Flight Performance Experiment (GRIFEX)
OptiCube 3		3U	Cal Poly, SLO	Targets for orbital debris studies	Active	20 May 2015	15:05	Atlas V
AeroCube 8B		1.5U	Aerospace Corp.		Active	20 May 2015	15:05	Atlas V
AeroCube 8A		1.5U	Aerospace Corp.		Active	20 May 2015	15:05	Atlas V
OptiCube 2		3U	Cal Poly, SLO		Active	20 May 2015	15:05	Atlas V
GEARRS-2		3U	NearSpace Launch Inc	Technology/Communications	Active	20 May 2015	15:05	Atlas V
OptiCube 1		3U	Cal Poly, SLO		Active	20 May 2015	15:05	Atlas V
BRICSat-P		1.5U	U.S. Naval Academy	Transponder experiment, electric propulsion technology	Active	20 May 2015	15:05	Atlas V
PSat A		1.5U	U.S. Naval Academy		Active	20 May 2015	15:05	Atlas V
USS Langley		3U	U.S. Naval Academy		Active	20 May 2015	15:05	Atlas V
CanX-1	2003-031H 27847	1U	UTIAS	Technology demonstration	Failed	30 Jun 2003	14:15	Rokot/Briz-KM		No signal from spacecraft
DTUsat	2003-031C 27842	1U	DTU	Tether research	Failed	30 Jun 2003	14:15	Rokot/Briz-KM		No signal from spacecraft
AAU CubeSat	2003-031G 27846	1U	Aalborg University	Imaging	Failed	30 Jun 2003	14:15	Rokot/Briz-KM		Battery problems, deactivated on 2003 Sep 22
QuakeSat	2003-031F 27845	3U	Stanford University	Earthquake detection	Active	30 Jun 2003	14:15	Rokot/Briz-KM
CUTE-I (Oscar 55)	2003-031E 27844	1U	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Amateur radio	Active	30 Jun 2003	14:15	Rokot/Briz-KM
Cubesat XI-IV (Oscar 57)	2003-031J 27848	1U	University of Tokyo	Amateur radio	Active	30 Jun 2003	14:15	Rokot/Briz-KM
Cubesat XI-V (Oscar 58)	2005-043F 28895	1U	University of Tokyo	Amateur radio	Active	27 Oct 2005	14:15	Kosmos-3M
nCube-2	2005-043H 28897	1U	ARR/NSC	Amateur radio	Failed	27 Oct 2005	14:15	Kosmos-3M		No signal
UWE-1	2005-043C 28892	1U	University of Würzburg	Technology/Communications	Failed	27 Oct 2005	14:15	Kosmos-3M		Contact lost on 2005 Nov 17
SACRED		1U	University of Arizona		Destroyed	26 Jul 2006	19:43	Dnepr-1		Launch failure
ION		2U	University of Illinois		Destroyed	26 Jul 2006	19:43	Dnepr-1		Launch failure
Rincon 1		1U	University of Arizona		Destroyed	26 Jul 2006	19:43	Dnepr-1		Launch failure
ICE Cube 1		1U	Cornell University		Destroyed	26 Jul 2006	19:43	Dnepr-1		Launch failure
KUTESat		1U	University of Kansas		Destroyed	26 Jul 2006	19:43	Dnepr-1		Launch failure
NCUBE-1		1U	ARR/NSC		Destroyed	26 Jul 2006	19:43	Dnepr-1		Launch failure
HAUSAT-1		1U	Hankuk Aviation University		Destroyed	26 Jul 2006	19:43	Dnepr-1		Launch failure
SEEDS-1		1U	Nihon University		Destroyed	26 Jul 2006	19:43	Dnepr-1		Launch failure
CP-2		1U	California Polytechnic University		Destroyed	26 Jul 2006	19:43	Dnepr-1		Launch failure
AeroCube 1		1U	Aerospace Corporation		Destroyed	26 Jul 2006	19:43	Dnepr-1		Launch failure
MEROPE		1U	Montana State University		Destroyed	26 Jul 2006	19:43	Dnepr-1		Launch failure
Mea Huaka`i (Voyager)		1U	University of Hawaii		Destroyed	26 Jul 2006	19:43	Dnepr-1		Launch failure
ICE Cube 2		1U	Cornell University		Destroyed	26 Jul 2006	19:43	Dnepr-1		Launch failure
CP-1		1U	California Polytechnic University		Destroyed	26 Jul 2006	19:43	Dnepr-1		Launch failure
GeneSat-1	2006-058C 29655	3U	NASA/Santa Clara University	Biological research Technology demonstration	Completed	16 Dec 2006	12:00	Minotaur	2010 Aug 04	Primary mission complete
CSTB1	2007-012F 31122	1U	Boeing		Active	17 Apr 2007	06:46	Dnepr-1
AeroCube 2	2007-012R 31133	1U	Aerospace Corporation		Failed	17 Apr 2007	06:46	Dnepr-1		Solar converter malfunction on 2007 Apr 18
CP-4	2007-012Q 31132	1U	California Polytechnic University		Active	17 Apr 2007	06:46	Dnepr-1
Libertad-1	2007-012M 31128	1U	Sergio Arboleda University		Successful	17 Apr 2007	06:46	Dnepr-1		Designed to only operate for 50 days. However continued for over 2 years.
CAPE-1	2007-012P 31130	1U	University of Louisiana at Lafayette		Active	17 Apr 2007	06:46	Dnepr-1
CP-3	2007-012N 31129	1U	California Polytechnic University		Active	17 Apr 2007	06:46	Dnepr-1
MAST	2007-012K 31126	1U	Tethers Unlimited	Tether experiments		17 Apr 2007	06:46	Dnepr-1		Failed to deploy, but radio contact made
Cute-1.7 + APD II	2008-021C 32785	2U	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Separation system demonstration and Avalanche Photo Diode sensor experiment	Active	28 Apr 2008	03:53	PSLV-CA
COMPASS-1	2008-021E 32787	1U	FH Aachen	Demonstration of commercial off-the-shelf components and taking photos	Active	28 Apr 2008	03:53	PSLV-CA
AAUSAT-II	2008-021F 32788	1U	University of Aalborg, Denmark	ADCS system and a gamma ray detector	Active	28 Apr 2008	03:53	PSLV-CA
Delfi-C3	2008-021G 32789	3U	Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands	On-orbit testing of thin film solar cells (TFSC) and autonomous wireless sun sensor (AWSS), Demonstrating the world's first linear amateur radio transponder on a CubeSat	Active	28 Apr 2008	03:53	PSLV-CA
CanX-2	2008-021H 32790	3U	University of Toronto, Canada	Technology demonstrator for formation flying	Active	28 Apr 2008	03:53	PSLV-CA
SEEDS-2	2008-021J 32791	1U	Nihon University, Japan	Amateur radio experiments and preprogrammed message sending	Active	28 Apr 2008	03:53	PSLV-CA
PREsat		3U	NASA	Technology	Destroyed	3 Aug 2008	03:34	Falcon 1		Launch failure
NanoSail-D		3U	NASA	Technology	Destroyed	3 Aug 2008	03:34	Falcon 1		Launch failure
PharmaSat	2009-028B 35002	3U	NASA Ames Research Center, Santa Clara University, UTMB	Measured the effect of antifungal countermeasures on yeast strains in microgravity. ~96 hour experiment.	Completed	19 May 2009	23:55	Minotaur I	2012 Aug 14
CP6	2009-028C 35003	1U	California Polytechnic University			19 May 2009	23:55	Minotaur I	2011 Oct 06
HawkSat I	2009-028D 35004	1U	HISS			19 May 2009	23:55	Minotaur I	2011 Sep 04
AeroCube 3	2009-028E 35005	1U	Aerospace Corporation			19 May 2009	23:55	Minotaur I	2011 Jan 06
SwissCube-1	2009-051B 35932	1U	Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Upper atmospheric science	Active	23 Sep 2009	06:21	PSLV-CA		First Swiss satellite
BeeSat-1	2009-051C 35933	1U	Berlin Institute of Technology	Reaction wheel technology qualification	Active	23 Sep 2009	06:21	PSLV-CA
UWE-2	2009-051D 35934	1U	Universität Würzburg	ADCS technology demonstrator	Active	23 Sep 2009	06:21	PSLV-CA
ITUpSAT1	2009-051E 35935	1U	Istanbul Technical University	Imagery, technology	Active	23 Sep 2009	06:21	PSLV-CA
Hayato	2010-020A 36573	1U	Kagoshima University		Failed	20 May 2010	21:58	H-IIA 202	2010 Jun 28
Waseda-SAT2	2010-020B 36574	1U	Waseda University		Unclear	20 May 2010	21:58	H-IIA 202	2010 Jul 12
Negai☆''	2010-020C 36575	1U	Soka University		Successful	20 May 2010	21:58	H-IIA 202	2010 Jun 26
TIsat-1	2010-035E 36799	1U	SUPSI		Active	12 Jul 2010	03:53	PSLV-CA
StudSat	2010-035B 36796	1U	StudSat		Inactive	12 Jul 2010	03:53	PSLV-CA		First Indian picosatellite
RAX-1	2010-062B 37223	3U	University of Michigan	Ionospheric research	Premature End	20 Nov 2010	01:25	Minotaur 4 (STP-S26)		anomaly on the solar panels resulted in degradation of power generation
O/OREOS	2010-062C 37224	3U	NASA SMD	Life sciences		20 Nov 2010	01:25	Minotaur 4 (STP-S26)
NanoSail-D2	2010-062L 37361	3U	NASA Ames Research Center	Technology	Completed	20 Nov 2010	01:25	Minotaur 4 (STP-S26)	2011 Sep 17	failed to eject 2010 Dec 06; spontaneously ejected 2011 Jan 19 to complete mission
Perseus 000	2010-066H 37251	1.5U	Los Alamos National Laboratory	Developing a rapid-response satellite capability to enable many different mission types	Completed	8 Dec 2010	15:43	Falcon 9	2010 Dec 30
Perseus 001	2010-066E 37248	1.5U	Los Alamos National Laboratory	Developing a rapid-response satellite capability to enable many different mission types	Completed	8 Dec 2010	15:43	Falcon 9	2010 Dec 31
Perseus 002	2010-066G 37250	1.5U	Los Alamos National Laboratory	Developing a rapid-response satellite capability to enable many different mission types	Completed	8 Dec 2010	15:43	Falcon 9	2010 Dec 30
Perseus 003	2010-066D 37247	1.5U	Los Alamos National Laboratory	Developing a rapid-response satellite capability to enable many different mission types	Completed	8 Dec 2010	15:43	Falcon 9	2010 Dec 31
QbX1	2010-066F 37249	3U	NRL	Technology demonstration	Successful	8 Dec 2010	15:43	Falcon 9	2011 Jan 06
QbX2	2010-066B 37245	3U	NRL	Technology demonstration	Successful	8 Dec 2010	15:43	Falcon 9	2011 Jan 16
SMDC-ONE	2010-066C 37246	3U	US Army SMDC	Communications	Completed	8 Dec 2010	15:43	Falcon 9	2011 Jan 12
Mayflower-Caerus	2010-066J 37252	3U	Northrop Grumman (Mayflower); University of Southern California (Caerus)	Technology	Completed	8 Dec 2010	15:43	Falcon 9	2010 Dec 22
KySat-1		1U	Kentucky Space	Educational, technology testing, amateur radio	Destroyed	04 Mar 2011	10:09:43	Taurus-XL via ELaNa-1		Launch failure
Hermes		1U	University of Colorado at Boulder		Destroyed	04 Mar 2011	10:09:43	Taurus-XL		Launch failure
Explorer-1 [Prime]		1U	Montana State University		Destroyed	04 Mar 2011	10:09:43	Taurus-XL		Launch failure
Jugnu	2011-058B 37839	3U	IIT Kanpur	Micro-imaging system, near infrared camera to observe vegetation, GPS Receiver to aid tracking	Active	12 Oct 2011	05:30	PSLV-CA
M-Cubed	2011-061F 37855	1U	University of Michigan	Obtaining a mid resolution image to date of Earth with at least 60% land mass and a maximum of 20% cloud coverage from a single CubeSat platform		28 Oct 2011	09:48	Delta II via ELaNa-3		M-cubed and Explorer-1 Prime Unit 2 (HRBE) were magnetically attached to one another. Speculation is that this is due to the permanent magnets each have for passive attitude control. M-cubed remains alive and transmitting.
DICE-1	2011-061B 37851	1.5U	Space Dynamics Laboratory	Ionospheric research	Active	28 Oct 2011	09:48	Delta II via ELaNa-3
DICE-2	2011-061C 37852	1.5U	Space Dynamics Laboratory	Ionospheric research	Active	28 Oct 2011	09:48	Delta II via ELaNa-3
Explorer-1 [Prime] Unit 2	2011-061F 37855	1U	Montana Space Grant Consortium	Magnetospheric Research	Active	28 Oct 2011	09:48	Delta II via ELaNa-3		M-cubed and Explorer-1 Prime Unit 2 (HRBE) were magnetically attached to one another. Speculation is that this is due to the permanent magnets each have for passive attitude control. HRBE did not suffer from this connection with M-cubed.
RAX-2	2011-061D 37853	3U	University of Michigan	Ionospheric research	Active	28 Oct 2011	09:48	Delta II via ELaNa-3
AubieSat-1	2011-061E 37854	1U	Auburn University	Technology	Active	28 Oct 2011	09:48	Delta II via ELaNa-3		First CubeSat from Auburn University
ROBUSTA	2012-006H 38084	1U	Université Montpellier 2	Radiation effects on bipolar-transistor-based circuits	Failed	13 Feb 2012	10:00	Vega	2014	First French CubeSat
e-st@r	2012-006C 38079	1U	Politecnico di Torino	Development and test of an active ADCS Test of COTS	Tumbling	13 Feb 2012	10:00	Vega
MaSat-1	2012-006E 38081	1U	BME	Technological demonstration	Active	13 Feb 2012	10:00	Vega		First Hungarian satellite
Xatcobeo	2012-006F 38082	1U	University of Vigo	Verification of a new system for measuring the amount of ionizing radiation (RDS) Development of a new Software defined reconfigurable radio (SRAD) system Experimental solar panel deployment system (PDM)	Active	13 Feb 2012	10:00	Vega
Goliat	2012-006D 38080	1U	University of Bucharest Romania	Earth imaging and space environment measuring		13 Feb 2012	10:00	Vega		First Romanian satellite
PW-Sat	2012-006G 38083	1U	Warsaw University of Technology Poland	Technology experiments		13 Feb 2012	10:00	Vega		First Polish satellite
UniCubeSat-GG	2012-006J 38085	1U	GAUSS team-Sapienza University of Rome Italy	Deployable powered boom for gravity gradient libration study		13 Feb 2012	10:00	Vega		First Italian CubeSat (together with e-st@r)
F-1	2012-038E 38855	1U	FPT University	Training for students and young engineers/Education Test of 3-axis SDTM magnetometer Will be the first Vietnamese satellite developed domestically	Failed; No signal received	21 Jul 2012	02:06	H-IIB to ISS	9 May 2013	Deployed from ISS 2012 Oct 4.
TechEdSat	2012-038D 38854	1U	San Jose State University	SPA hardware and software, inter-satellite communication link analysis		21 Jul 2012	02:06	H-IIB to ISS	2013 May 5	Deployed from ISS 2012 Oct 4.
Raiko	2012-038B 38852	2U	Tohoku University/Wakayama University	Ku-band communication, prototype star tracker and deployable membrane technology demonstration	Successful	21 Jul 2012	02:06	H-IIB to ISS	2013 Aug 6	Deployed from ISS 2012 Oct 4
We-Wish	2012-038F 38856	1U	Meisei Electric	Infrared camera imaging	Failed, no signal received	21 Jul 2012	02:06	H-IIB to ISS	2013 Mar 11	Deployed from ISS 2012 Oct 4
CSSWE	2012-048D 38761	3U	University of Colorado Boulder / LASP	Space Weather Research	Active	13 Sep 2012	21:39)	Atlas V 401 via ELaNa-VI	Expected 2028	Extended Mission Complete
FITSAT-1 (NIWAKA)	2012-038C 38853	1U	Fukuoka Institute of Technology	The main mission objective is to demonstrate the developed high-speed transmitter.	Active	4 Oct 2012	15:44	H-IIB to ISS	2013 Jul 04	Deployed from ISS 2012 Oct 4.
AAUSAT3	2013-009B 39087	1U	University of Aalborg, Denmark	Double AIS system for tracking ships in Arctic regions.	Active	25 Feb 2013	12:31	PSLV-CA C20		Denmark's CubeSat number 4
BeeSat-2	2013-015G 39136	1U	Berlin Institute of Technology	Reaction wheel technology qualification	Active	19 Apr 2013	10:00	Soyuz
BeeSat-3	2013-015E 39134	1U	Berlin Institute of Technology	Reaction wheel technology qualification	Active	19 Apr 2013	10:00	Soyuz
SOMP	2013-015F 39135	1U	Dresden University of Technology, Germany	Education, testing software defined radio, measuring atomic oxygen concentration, demonstrating TFSC		19 Apr 2013	10:00	Soyuz
PhoneSat 1.0 (Graham)	2013-016E 39146	1U	NASA Ames Research Center	ongoing NASA project, part of the Small Spacecraft Technology Program, of building nanosatellites using unmodified consumer-grade off-the-shelf smartphones		21 Apr 2013	21:00	Antares 110 A-ONE	2013 Apr 26	First PhoneSat Launch
PhoneSat 1.0 (Bell)	2013-016A 39142	1U	NASA Ames Research Center	ongoing NASA project, part of the Small Spacecraft Technology Program, of building nanosatellites using unmodified consumer-grade off-the-shelf smartphones		21 Apr 2013	21:00	Antares 110 A-ONE	2013 Apr 27	First PhoneSat Launch
PhoneSat 2.0.beta (Alexander)	2013-016C 39144	1U	NASA Ames Research Center	ongoing NASA project, part of the Small Spacecraft Technology Program, of building nanosatellites using unmodified consumer-grade off-the-shelf smartphones		21 Apr 2013	21:00	Antares 110 A-ONE	2013 Apr 27	First PhoneSat Launch
NEE-01 Pegasus	2013-018B 39151	1U	Ecuadorian Space Agency	Technological demonstration/Education Test of real time video transmission Test of Thermal/Radiation shield Test of multiphase solar array Test of passive antenna deployment Test of carbon nanotubes thermal control system	Active	25 Apr 2013	04:13	Long March 2D		First Ecuadorian satellite, first CubeSat to transmit real-time video
SkyCube	1998-067EL 39567	1U	Southern Stars LLC	Crowdfunding, messaging, imaging, balloon inflation	Active	9 Jan 2014	18:07:05	Cygnus CRS Orb-1 to ISS		First crowdfunded satellite with inflatable balloon; Deployed from ISS 2014 Feb 28.
ESTCube-1	2013-021C 39161	1U	University of Tartu	Space test of the electric solar wind sail	Active	7 May 2013	02:06:31	Vega		First Estonian satellite
UAPSAT	1998-067EM 39568	1U	University Alas Peruanas	Technology demonstration		9 Jan 2014	18:07:05	Cygnus CRS Orb-1 to ISS	2014 May 22	Deployed from ISS 2014 Feb 28.
OPUSAT	2014-009D 39575	1U	Osaka Prefecture University	technology		27 Feb 2014	18:37	H-IIA 202	24 Jul 2014
ITF-1 (Yui)	2014-009B 39573	1U	Tsukuba University	amateur radio		27 Feb 2014	18:37	H-IIA 202	29 Jun 2014
INVADER (Artsat-1)	2014-009F 39577	1U	Tama Art University	art, voice broadcast		27 Feb 2014	18:37	H-IIA 202
KSAT2 (Hayato-2)	2014-009G 39578	1U	Kagoshima University	climatology research		27 Feb 2014	18:37	H-IIA 202	2014 May 18
VELOX-P2	2013-066Y 39438	1U	Satellite Research Center, Nanyang Technological University	Undergraduate Satellite Program. Technology demonstration for in house development of the sensors.		21 Nov 2013	07:10	Dnepr-1
VELOX-1-NSAT	2014-034E 40057	1U	Satellite Research Center, Nanyang Technological University	Undergraduate Satellite Program. Technology demonstration for in house development of the sensors.		30 Jun 2014	04:22	PSLV-CA
VELOX-1-PSAT	2014-034E 40057	1U	Satellite Research Center, Nanyang Technological University	Undergraduate Satellite Program. Technology demonstration for in house development of the sensors.		30 Jun 2014	04:22	PSLV-CA
NEE-02 Krysaor	2013-066AB 39441	1U	Ecuadorian Space Agency	Technological demonstration / Education Orbital debris and small asteroids monitoring		21 Nov 2013	07:10	Dnepr-1		Will be the second Ecuadorian satellite in constellation with NEE-01; Build and testing completed on 15 July 2012
PUCPSAT-1	2013-066AC 39442	1U	Universidad Católica del Perú	Technology demonstration		21 Nov 2013	07:10	Dnepr/GAUSS Srl deployer
LightSail-1		3U	The Planetary Society	Demonstrating increased orbital energy with controlled solar sailing in Earth orbit	Completed (Reentered)	20 May 2015	15:05	Atlas V via ELaNa-XI
Perseus-M	40037 40039	6U	Canopus Systems US (Operated by Aquila Space, Inc.)	6U Cubesat Bus Demonstration and AIS ship tracking payload	Active	19 June 2014	19:11:11	Dnepr
STRaND-1	2013-009E 39090	3U	Surrey Space Centre (SSC), University of Surrey, & Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL)	STRaND: Surrey Technology Research & Nanosatellite Demonstrator. Various payloads: high precision AOCS system, pulsed plasma thrusters (PPTs) & smart-phone technology demonstration.	Operational	25 Feb 2013	12:31	PSLV-CA C20		First in STRaND Programme
CHASQUI - I		1U	UNI	Technology demonstration	Unknown	9 Jan 2014	18:07:05	Cygnus CRS Orb-1 to ISS		Peruvian. Deployed from ISS 17 Aug 2014
ArduSat1	1998-067DA 39412	1U	Nanosatisfi LLC	Allow general public to use the satellite sensors for their own creative purposes.		3 Aug 2013	19:48	H-IIB 304 to ISS	2014 Apr 16	Deployed from ISS 2013 Nov 19.
ArduSatX	1998-067DC 39414	1U	Nanosatisfi LLC	Allow general public to use the satellite sensors for their own creative purposes.		3 Aug 2013	19:48	H-IIB 304 to ISS	2014 Apr 15	Deployed from ISS 2013 Nov 19.
ArduSat2	1998-067EQ 39571	1U	Nanosatisfi LLC	Allow general public to use the satellite sensors for their own creative purposes.		9 Jan 2014	18:07:05	Cygnus CRS Orb-1 to ISS	2014 Jul 01	Deployed from ISS 2014 Feb 28.
LEMUR-1		3U	Nanosatisfi			19 Jun 2014	19:11:11	Dnepr
TSat	2014-022C 39682		Taylor University	Low Earth Orbit Plasma Research		18 Apr 2014	19:25:22	Falcon 9 via ELaNa-V	2014 May 28
Firefly	2013-064AA 39404	3U	Taylor University	Space Communication Research	Operational	20 Nov 2013	01:15	Minotaur I
TUSat1		1U	Taylor University	Space Communication Research		30 Jun 2003	14:15	Rokot/Briz-KM		First Satellite from Indiana
ChargerSat-1	2013-064AB 39405	1U	University of Alabama in Huntsville	Technological demonstration	Launched. No contact established. Maximum time before passive return and destruction: 24 months	20 Nov 2013	01:15	Minotaur I via ELaNa-IV		Built by the UAH Space Hardware Club.
Vermont Lunar	2013-064AD 39407	1U	Vermont Technical College	Testing navigation components to be used in a follow up 3U ion drive CubeSat to the Moon	Active	20 Nov 2013	01:15	Minotaur I via ELaNa-IV		First university satellite from New England. Built by the Vermont Tech CubeSat Lab.
Antelsat	2014-033AA 40034	2U	FING-IIE (Facultad de Ingeniería de la Universidad de la República, Instituto de Ingeniería Eléctrica), Antel (Administración Nacional de Telecomunicaciones)	Open source satellite to encourage students, engineers and technicians, to learn and develop space technology. UHF telemetry, VHF telecommand, S-Band download data from color & infrared cameras	Active	19 Jun 2014	19:11:11	Dnepr-1		First entirely Uruguaian artificial satellite. [1] [2]
Flock-1c x 11		3U	Planet Labs, US	Optical imaging	Active	19 Jun 2014	19:11:11	Dnepr-1
NanoSatC-Br 1		1U	UFSM, INPE, Brazil	Magnetosphere research	Active	19 Jun 2014	19:11:11	Dnepr-1
POPSAT-HIP 1		3U	Microspace Rapid	Technology (demonstrate the functionality of a high resolution optical payload and attitude control propulsion system)	Active	19 Jun 2014	19:11:11	Dnepr-1
QB50P1, QB50P2		2U	Von Karman Institute, Belgium	Thermosphere research (Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometers)	Active	19 Jun 2014	19:11:11	Dnepr-1		Pair of the first Belgium satellites; first cubesats under QB50 program
iCUBE-1	2013-066S 39432	1U	Institute of Space Technology Islamabad Pakistan	Small satellite designed by the students	Active	21 Nov 2013	07:10	Dnepr-1		First Pakistani CubeSat.
FUNcube-1	2013-066AE 39444	1U	AMSAT-UK / National Radio Centre	Primary/ secondary education (UK)	Active	21 Nov 2013	07:10	Dnepr-1		http://funcube.org.uk/2013/11/22/belated-launch-day-report
Delfi-n3Xt	2013-066N 39428	3U	Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands	Technology demonstrations of a micro-propulsion system developed by TNO in cooperation with TU Delft and University of Twente called T3µPS and an in-orbit configurable, high-efficient transceiver platform developed by ISIS BV, in cooperation with TU Delft and SystematIC BV called ITRX.	Active	21 Nov 2013	07:10	Dnepr-1		http://www.delfispace.nl
ZACUBE-1 (TshepisoSat)	2013-066B 39417	1U	French South African Institute of Technology at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology	Space weather, technology demonstration, education and human capital development.	Active	21 Nov 2013	07:10	Dnepr-1		Student built satellite. First South African CubeSat - http://www.cput.ac.za/fsati
VELOX-P1		1U	Satellite Research Center, Nanyang Technological University	Undergraduate Satellite Program. Technology demonstration for in house development of the sensors.		1 Oct 2012	?	Confidential (Neptune)

List of CubeSats in development

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Name	COSPAR ID SATCAT №	Type	Organisation	Mission	Mission status	Planned Launch Year	Launch Vehicle	Reentry date	Remarks
UPSat		2U	University of Patras, Libre Space Foundation	research	in testing				Part of the QB50 project. First open source hardware and software satellite to be launched. First satellite manufactured in Greece
Aalto-1		3U	Aalto University and Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland	Technical demonstration of a miniaturized spectral imager, a radiation monitor and a plasma brake	Awaiting launch availability	2015			Will be the first Finnish satellite [3].
ERPSat01		1U	Sfax School of Engineering, Tunisia	Communication	Awaiting launch availability				Will be the first Tunisian satellite
OUFTI-1		1U	University of Liège and I.S.I.L (Haute École de la Province de Liège, Belgium	Testing radio protocol in space	Awaiting Vega launch availability	2016			Orbital Utility For Telecommunication Innovations (OUFTI).
ExoplanetSat		3U	Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)	A Nanosatellite Space Telescope for Detecting Transiting Exoplanets	Under development				ExoplanetSat demonstrates the graduated growth of a constellation, with the final phase being 100 satellites surveying bright stars for other Earths
OSIRIS-3U		3U	Pennsylvania State University SSPL	In situ measurements of temporal and spatial characteristics of ionospheric space weather	Under development				Constellation of three 1U spacecraft launched simultaneously and orbiting in linear formation. Accepted to NASA's CubeSat Launch Initiative in 2013
α (formerly CubeMessenger)		1U	BOREAS Space	Technological demonstration	Under development		Haas 2C
DynaCube-3U		3U	Denel Dynamics Engineering Academy of Learning	Graduate Development Program. Capture of Images as well as Electromagnetic Radiation Mapping and Structural Temperature Analysis.	Under development	2017
NUTS-1		2U	Norwegian University of Science and Technology	Student satellite project aiming to design and develop a new CubeSat bus, including using carbon fiber material for the main structure.	Under development
Azad-1		TBD	Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology	Classified	Under development
Project BLAST		1U	University of Southampton	Constructed from off the shelf, commercially available components at TRL7+, specifically a Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone.	Development on hold
UoS3		1U	University of Southampton	UoS3, or University of Southampton Small Satellite, is a 1U CubeSat that will carry out experimental research aimed to improve out capabilities to predict re-entry of uncontrolled resident space objects while giving students practical experience in spacecraft design and development.	Under development	2016
EQUiSat		1U	Brown University	Open-source satellite to encourage involvement of students and amateurs in aerospace design.	Under development				Accepted to NASA's CubeSat Launch Initiative in 2014
CySat I		1U	Iowa State University, Softronics Ltd.	Wide bandwidth radiometer for measurement of various electromagnetic spectra emanating from cities. Also proof of concept for undergraduate and graduate students as well as faculty and industry partners.	Under development				https://sites.google.com/site/cysatiowastateuniversity/
StangSat		1U	Merritt Island High School CubeSat in partnership with CalPoly	Shock and vibration experienced by payloads while in orbit.	Under development				Will be second satellite to launch developed by a high school team. NASA's Launch Services Program sponsors and mentors the team. Demonstration flight occurred in 2013
SkCube		2U (QB50 type)	Slovak Organisation for Space Activities (SOSA), University of Žilina, Slovak University of Technology by help of Belgian Von Karman Institute, Faculty of Aeronautics of Technical University of Kosice	research and technology demonstration		2016			Will be first Slovak satellite.
?		1U (QB50 type)	Dublin Institute of Technology	research	planned				Will be first Irish satellite
?			Syrian Space Research Center	research	planned				Will be first Syrian satellite
ET-SAT		1U (QB50 type)	Ethiopian Space Science Society by help of Belgian Von Karman Institute	research					Will be first Ethiopian satellite
Ethosat 1			Ethiopian Space Science Society by help of Finnish Space Technology and Science Group	research		2019
CubeSTAR		2U	University of Oslo	Measure the structures of electron clouds in the ionosphere using Langmuir probe	Under development
Politech.1		3U	Universidad Politecnica de Valencia Spain	Atmospheric research
SPOC		3U	University of Georgia	Earth Observation and Multispectral image analysis		2018			Student built and the first satellite from the University of Georgia
MOCI		3U	University of Georgia	Technical and Algorithmic demonstrations of Structure from motion

References

• CubeSat Database