Hardware

STARBUS

Coming soon

A repeatable CubeSat mission platform where the bus stays standard and the customer-specific part is the payload.

Platform range

One bus architecture, three payload envelopes

STARBUS is designed around a standard spacecraft bus and a variable payload bay. The offer scales from compact validation missions to larger hosted payload missions without rebuilding the mission architecture each time.

Small payload validation

STARBUS 1U

Education, proof-of-concept payloads, simple sensors, and rapid in-orbit demonstrations.

Envelope: 1U CubeSat envelope
Mass: Target payload mass: up to 0.5 kg
Power: Target payload power: 1-3 W average
Data: Low-rate payload data and housekeeping

Default nanosatellite platform

STARBUS 3U

Most hosted payloads, technology demonstrations, research missions, and early commercial missions.

Envelope: 3U CubeSat envelope
Mass: Target payload mass: up to 2 kg
Power: Target payload power: 5-15 W average
Data: Standard payload data path with S-band option

Higher-capability hosted payload platform

STARBUS 6U

Larger instruments, higher-data payloads, imaging, communications payloads, and more capable demos.

Envelope: 6U CubeSat envelope
Mass: Target payload mass: up to 5 kg
Power: Target payload power: 15-40 W average
Data: Higher-rate payload data with S-band or X-band path

Architecture

Standard bus, variable payload

The STARBUS product idea is simple: keep the spacecraft bus repeatable and scale the payload envelope around the mission.