CubeSat
CubeSat, satélite estandarizado en miniatura
- Date
- 1999-2003 · confidence high
- Place
- Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and Stanford, California, United States
- Credited to
- Jordi Puig-Suari (Cal Poly) and Bob Twiggs (Stanford); first launched in 2003
- People
- 👤 Bob Twiggs1935–👤 Jordi Puig-Suari1901–
- Field
- Movement
What it is
A satellite standard measuring 10 cm to a side, built from off-the-shelf components and launched as secondary payload. It cut the cost of access to space for universities, start-ups and countries without a space programme.
What it led to
- New Space and commercial constellations (Planet Labs)
- Daily observation of the Earth and open-source intelligence
- Orbital congestion and space debris
Built on
- Sputnik 1, first artificial satellite1957
- smartphone (components)
- solar cell
Made possible
- Satellite internet megaconstellation (Starlink)2019
- observation constellations
- Starlink (mass production concept)