Quub: 6P Aurora Bus

Quub’s custom expansion on the PocketQube standard, our 6p satellite bus offers about the same volume as a 1.5U Cubesat, but in a form that allows greater flexibility for non-standard circuit board design. Using Quub’s custom microcontroller boards, Aurora can support a load of up to 7 different sensor types, with up to 26 watts of onboard power. Our standard electro-optical (EO) package starts with a multispectral (Near-IR to UV) telescope with between 5 and 10 meters per pixel resolution to support remote sensing and anomaly detection. This design also supports a vacuum arc thruster for propulsion, which allows the satellite to adjust course, or to automatically deorbit in the event of system failure.