The budget for developing, assembling, and operating CUTE through the summer of 2024 is about $5,500,000.
Two additional NASA-funded, LASP-led missions adopted similar mission and instrument designs to CUTE.
The University of Colorado’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) assembled, tested, and operates CUTE.
CUTE launched to a sun-synchronous low-Earth orbit in September 2021 as a secondary payload on the NASA–U.S. Geological Survey Landsat 9 mission.
The Colorado Ultraviolet Transit Experiment (CUTE) is a six-unit cubesat designed to characterize the composition and mass-loss rates of exoplanet atmospheres and is scheduled to launch in 2021 on the Landsat 9 spacecraft.
The Colorado Ultraviolet Transit Experiment (CUTE) plans to study exoplanet transits at ultraviolet wavelengths to understand how some hot Jupiter exoplanets lose mass from their atmospheres.
CUTE is nearing completion and is scheduled to launch in early 2021 as a secondary payload on the Atlas V launch of Landsat 9.