Pretty much what the other commenters said. Nobody cares whether your cubesat lives or dies in orbit. However, the radiation tests done on these open source boa

Pretty much what the other commenters said. Nobody cares whether your cubesat lives or dies in orbit. However, the radiation tests done on these open source boards have been quite extensive and there are a bunch of cubesats in orbit with these boards right now. They haven’t died from radiation so it’s generally assumed it’s fine. Even NASA has a project using consumer hardware in orbit (KickSat-2). Anyhow, generally you only need to pass the “mechanical” tests like vibration, vacuum, outgassing, etc. A lot of people do radiation testing to ensure that their satellite won’t die in orbit, but as a whole these open source boards like PyCubed pass them enough where you can be sure you’ll get at least a decent amount of time out of it. If you’re curious about the testing procedure here is a paper one open source project published about it. It’s by no means a comprehensive paper on testing but it gives a general idea. https://roboticexplorationlab.org/papers/PyCubed-SmallSat.pdf https://roboticexplorationlab.org/papers/PyCubed-SmallSat.pd...