Maker Cubed | A Student-Designed CubeSat Mission
A project by Fremont Student Makers, a nonprofit student organization.
Maker Cubed is a student-led initiative by Fremont Student Makers, a nonprofit student organization, to design, build, and launch a CubeSat into orbit. Our goal is to provide a hands-on learning experience for students interested in space technology and engineering.
Our primary mission is to democratize space by providing students with the opportunity to send their own experiments into orbit. Maker Cubed will be a testbed for student experiments, allowing them to collect data and conduct research in a real space environment.
We are grateful to our launch and integration partners who support Maker Cubed's mission.
We are a diverse team of students with a shared passion for space and engineering. Our team is divided into several sub-teams, each responsible for a different aspect of the CubeSat's design and construction.
Our hardware team designs the mechanical structure, solar arrays, power distribution, and the test fixtures that make the CubeSat flight-ready. We prototype, test thermal and vibration, and integrate payloads. Our design structure is based on the open source designs from BuildACubesat
We develop embedded flight software, ground station tools, and mission operations scripts. Our stack includes RTOS-based firmware, telemetry parsers, and data visualization tools used during missions.
Electronics design covers PCB layout, power conditioning, communications radios, and sensor integration. We emphasize modular, testable designs that can be mass-manufactured and space-qualified.
