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Unless you want a specific orbital inclination, or are doing is specifically as an engineering exercise, building a cube lab to be installed on a platform like
by tagami 4y ago
Unless you want a specific orbital inclination, or are doing is specifically as an engineering exercise, building a cube lab to be installed on a platform like the ISS means lower complexity and lower cost. You can focus on your research goals AND you can even get your payload back to Earth.
- Ephil012 4y agoIf anyone is curious, I believe the big provider for this is Nanoracks. Never used them ourselves for our CubeSat due to our specific goals. However, they are extremely useful for stuff like sensor data, tech demos, research, and testing.
- tagami 4y agoThere are a number of commercial service providers, nanoracks being one of them. It’s best to shop around as they have developed specialized solutions (chip cells, partial/hyper gravity, crystalography, plant bio, etc.)