An Introduction to CubeSats

When a team building a 1U cubesat finds a component that works in their satellite, any other 1U cubesat team knows that that competent is now a possibility. If there’s interest, I may go over the main subsystems in more details in the future post but here are the main subsystems I’ve seen on cubesats

Guidance Navigation and Control- They are responsible for knowing where the satellite is, where it’s looking, and re-orienting the satellite to where it should be looking. (I lead the payload/science team for a 6U cubesat for 3 years at the University at buffalo nano-satellite lab (Link) ) Command and Data Handling – They handle the satellites “brain” and all the data in it.

Source: gereshes.com