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Small CubeSats equipped with 5-meter-square solar sails are capable of sophisticated station keeping.

Participants in the HURDLES program will acquire practical skills based on design documents and test procedures used in the development of small satellites (CubeSats).

DiskSat, designed and manufactured by Aerospace Corporation, offers a new platform alternative to CubeSats while inheriting their advantages.

The Lockheed Martin OMV upper stage program is intended to deploy up to six six-U CubeSats into separate orbits.

As of July 25, 2016, the Atlas V rocket launching WorldView-4 included a rideshare manifest of seven CubeSats sponsored by the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office to be deployed after separation of the WorldView-4 satellite.

Planet4589 published that the AIST-2T satellites were deployed into a 368 x 381 km orbit after the second Fregat burn and that subsequent Fregat activity placed many cubesats into a roughly 495 x 515 km orbit.

As of January 23, 2009, nine CubeSats were planned as secondary payloads on the maiden flight of Europe's Vega launch vehicle.

Exolaunch integrated and was set to deploy 22 customer satellites on the Bandwagon-2 mission, comprising 15 CubeSats and 7 microsatellites, with the launch targeted no earlier than December 2024.

The first two TROPICS cubesats were lost in a Rocket 3.3 launch failure on 2022-06-12.

GMV Innovating Solutions, based in Spain, developed an advanced payload processing unit that will fly as one of the five experiments on the Indra CubeSats.

The Spanish company Indra is building two CubeSats for a separate Flight Ticket mission.

The Missile Defense Agency deployed two CubeSats developed by Space Micro with integrated radio frequency (RF) payloads based on Space Micro’s μSDR-C™ family of small form factor software defined radios.

Kleos Space launched four cubesats on 2020-11-07 on an Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV).

Blue Canyon Technologies is scheduled to deliver cubesats to the Georgia Institute of Technology for instrument integration in 2022.

OroraTech launched the first in a series of cubesats equipped with a thermal infrared camera on Transporter-3 to provide early warnings of wildfires.

Astra Space will launch four NASA-sponsored cubesats on its Rocket 3.3 vehicle as soon as 2022-02-05.

Transporter-5 will use a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to launch multiple CubeSats from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

Rogue Space Systems partnered with SAIC to develop Orbots, including two cubesats that were slated for a demonstration mission in 2023.

Blue Canyon Technologies opened an expanded cubesat factory in Boulder last year, increasing capacity from 50 to 85 cubesats per year.

Blue Canyon Technologies supplied cubesats for NASA’s CLICK B/C mission, projected to launch in 2024, to demonstrate optical communication crosslink between two small spacecraft in low Earth orbit.