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Capability ladder · step 03 · EduSat

A CubeSat that comes
apart in your hands.

A fully functional 1U CubeSat model, simplified so a class can pull it apart and reassemble it in an afternoon. Deployable solar panels, a live software-defined radio, a full sensor suite, and the engineering curriculum served from the satellite itself.
Buy a single kitQuote an institutional programme
Entry point
USD 1,000
Audience
Universities · space agencies · technical institutes
Capabilities
1U CubeSat · ESP32 OBC · Raspberry Pi curriculum server · SDR · UHF / VHF

01What it teaches

Close a real link.

This is the rung where students stop learning about spacecraft and start operating one. Every claim on this page is published openly, because a teaching platform whose numbers are hidden is a teaching platform whose numbers do not survive contact with a spreadsheet.
  • 01Every bus subsystem, with the sizing arithmetic behind it
  • 02A link budget on both legs, term by term, to a real margin
  • 03Attitude determination from a magnetometer, gyroscope and accelerometer
  • 04Pass operations, Doppler, and what an eclipse does to a power budget

02Specification

What is actually in it.

Structure and power

Form factor
Modular 1U, 3D-printed
Assembly
Tool-light, repeated disassembly by design
Solar
Deployable panels, body-mounted array
Battery
3.7 V · 12,600 mAh (3 × 4,200) · 46.6 Wh
EPS
Solar charge board with telemetered rails

Avionics

On-board computer
ESP32
Payload computer
Raspberry Pi
Curriculum server
Hosted on the Pi, over the kit's own network
Code playground
Browser-based, no toolchain to install
Visualisation
Live attitude and power dashboards

Communications

Radio
Software-defined, UHF and VHF
Antennas
High-gain, deployable
Framing
AX.25 beacon with CRC-16/X.25
Payload
LoRa store-and-forward for IoT nodes

Sensors

Attitude
Magnetometer · accelerometer · gyroscope
Position
GPS
Environment
Barometric · UV
Imaging
Camera

03Curriculum

Hardware without a syllabus
is an expensive paperweight.

Three assessed courses ship with the kit — 31 hours of material with server-graded assessments, instructor-graded lab reports against a published rubric, and certificates anyone can verify from a code.
01Foundation · 10 h

CubeSat Systems Engineering Fundamentals

Form factor and deployer interface, every bus subsystem with the sizing arithmetic, the LEO environment, and the verification campaign.

02Advanced · 12 h

Satellite-to-IoT Link Design and Ground Segment

Link budgets both legs, AX.25 and CCSDS framing byte by byte, LoRa store-and-forward, pass operations and Doppler.

03Advanced · 9 h

Flight Software and IoT Edge Firmware

Mode management, FDIR that escalates rather than oscillates, telemetry dictionary design, and low-power edge firmware.

Open the course catalogue in the Learning Hub

04Compliance

Export control and screening.

Space hardware carries export-control obligations that vary by the jurisdiction of manufacture, the jurisdiction of the buyer, and the specification of the item. Every order is screened before shipment against the applicable control lists and restricted-party lists.

What this means for your timeline

Screening runs
During quotation, not after your purchase order
Delay to a funded project
None — it happens in parallel
If a licence is required
You are told at the quotation stage, not later
Documentation
End-use statement and consignee details

Order

EduSat kit
USD 1,000
Rocketry kit
USD 2,000
Training package
from USD 10,000
Single kits
Check out directly
Multi-unit and licences
Quoted — procurement rarely runs through a cart

03Open · no account required

Tier 010 min

Satellite-to-IoT coverage simulator

Place a ground node anywhere on Earth, choose an orbit, and see how much of the day the satellite can actually hear it. The same propagator that runs inside the curriculum, with the same conical eclipse model — not an animation of one.

Open it in the demo lab

Where this sits

See what a programme includes

Every rung shares one curriculum spine and one assessment standard, so a department can start small and grow without re-teaching itself.

  1. Step 01RocketryGet something off the ground
  2. Step 02RoboticsMake it act on the world
  3. Step 03EduSatClose a real link
  4. Step 04SpaceportUnderstand why location is destiny

Next

Test the claims before you talk to us.

Three simulators run in the browser with no account and no form. They are the same computations that run inside the curriculum — if the arithmetic does not hold up, you will find out in ten minutes rather than after a purchase order.

Request institutional accessOpen the demo labBrowse the curriculum

Tier 0 is open · Tier 1 unlocks on a verified institutional email