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Under its contract with the Space Force’s Mission Manifest Office, Parsons integrated payloads for several missions including NASA and U.S. Geological Survey’s Landsat 9, which carried four cubesats from other U.S. government agencies.

Customers now demand satellites ranging from cubesats built for six-month missions to geostationary communications satellites designed to last decades.

Kleos Space plans to move its first four cubesats into a loose tetrahedron formation after they launch.

The CubeSat Launch Initiative provides launches for cubesats developed by universities or NASA centers through rideshare launch opportunities or International Space Station deployments.

NASA will fund the development of a cluster of six cubesats that will fly in formation above geostationary orbit to study solar storms.

Open Cosmos builds cubesats and smallsats up to 50 kg and focuses its business model on turnkey solutions for customers.

Analytical Space Inc. has launched two demonstration cubesats and plans to deploy six satellites and two optical inter-satellite link payloads in low Earth orbit with STRATFI funding.

The cubesats are scheduled to fly to a sun-synchronous orbit later 2021-06 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare mission called Transporter-2.

The 2021-08-16 Vega mission injected four cubesats into Sun-synchronous orbit.

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 launch vehicle carried the NASA–U.S. Geological Survey Landsat 9 Observatory satellite and four cubesats from the U.S. Space Force’s Mission Manifest Office on the 2021-09-27 mission.

Cubesats and components are manufactured in 40,000 square feet of dedicated facilities in Boulder, Colorado.

CubeSats and components are manufactured in 40,000 square feet of dedicated facilities in Boulder, Colorado.

CubeSats and components are manufactured in 40,000 square feet of dedicated facilities in Boulder, Colorado.

Two commercial communications CubeSats on the Transporter-7 launch were developed using the SFL 6U-XL SPARTAN design for a Toronto-based company.

The facility hosts dedicated testing capabilities, including thermal cycle and electromagnetic chambers scaled to build and test satellites ranging in size from CubeSats to smallsats.

Planet’s larger 100- to 200-kilogram bus enables more modular, higher-performance satellite designs by providing additional internal volume compared with cubesats.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration funded MyRadar to develop and launch cubesats to validate technology for a future weather and environmental data constellation.

The fractionated platform approach of the ANSER CubeSats allows for regular upgrades with replacement CubeSats.

The three student-built CubeSats launched to the International Space Station on 2024-03-21.

A Rocket Lab Electron rocket launched the second of a pair of NASA cubesats designed to monitor infrared emissions at the Earth’s poles.