Objectives

The event is open to industry companies, research institutes, and national space agencies/delegations based within ESA Member/Cooperating/Associate States, and ESA personnel, with an interest in CubeSat missions, systems and technologies.

CubeSats are defined here as small satellites whose designs are compliant with the CubeSat specification and are multiples of a single CubeSat unit (10 cm × 10 cm × 10 cm) ranging from 2 units up to 16 units. Educational CubeSats (i.e. those that are developed by universities primarily for education and training purposes) are not covered by this event.

• Present the planned & ongoing CubeSat activities at ESA, and those from national agencies;
• Capture the current industry state-of-the-art, near-term developments and future priorities in CubeSat missions, systems, technologies/products, payloads, and services;
• Update roadmaps for potential future CubeSat technology developments and demonstration missions in the context of ESA activities;
• Identify any specific proposals for follow up in the ESA technology programmes;
• Provide an overview of ECSS tailored standards for CubeSats and the newly elaborated ESA CubeSat Engineering Guidelines.