We are excited to announce that quub has signed an agreement with launch services provider Phantom Space for three dedicated launches in 2025. This agreement will allow us to place about 80 of our PocketQube satellites per launch to an orbit of our choice, and to...
Emerging from Stealth Mode
We are thrilled to share that we are featured today in Payload! You can read the article here: Exclusive: Quub Emerges from Stealth Mode, Announces Two Air Force Contracts The article comes at a great time, too! We are nearing completion on a new Serenity build with...
Challenger Launching on SpaceX Rocket January 13, 2022
There might come a time when my palms don't get sweaty in the countdown to launching one of our satellites, but who am I kidding? I won't hold my breath. I'll always be a little nervous and excited at launch - and deployment in space - because we put so much effort...
Meet Satellite Maker quub at TechCrunch Sessions: Space 2021
The annual space conference hosted by publisher TechCrunch features a wide range of interesting sessions, from talks about game-changing technology to funding and entrepreneurship—and it’s an opportunity to network with industry participants. While here, meet quub...
Quub to Demonstrate Cybersecurity with Smallsat
Update: Launch is now scheduled for January 10, 2022. Scheduled to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in December 2021, a Mini-Cubes PocketQube satellite will serve as proof of concept for the prevention of “man-in-the-middle” data hacks. Data breaches cost millions...
Building an Earth-Friendly Satellite
Imagine a snow globe in your hands after you’ve shaken it. That’s a good way to picture the debris field around Earth, where millions of objects both large and miniscule—from dead satellites to paint and exhaust particles—swirl in geosynchronous and low Earth orbit....
Building Out Solar Panels
Recently we started building out our solar panels for the Serenity CubeSat, a project we have been working on with Teachers in Space. The process we used to build them is featured the two videos below. There were problems but we have figured them out and are moving...
First Vacuum Chamber Tests
We have finally installed a vacuum chamber that can drop the pressure to 2,500 mTorr (we can go to 500 mTorr) if we need it. That pressure is pretty close to what Discovery will experience in space. I ran the first test with the Engineering model for over six hours....
3rd PocketQube Workshop in Glasgow, Scotland
Today, I will be going wheels up bound for Glosgow, Scotland. The 3rd PocketQube workshop is starting on Thursday and I am planning to give a talk on the progress we have had here. A few more milestones, some testing and then we integrate into the AlbaPod bound for...