Comment by Sanzig 14 hours ago
Yep, but students love reinventing the wheel ;).
I agree though, my dream for years has been an open source CubeSat bus design that covers say 80% of academic CubeSat use cases and can be modified by the user for the other 20%. Unfortunately I have very little free time these days with family commitments.
have you seen https://github.com/the-aerospace-corporation/satcat5 ? sadly I don't have the FPGA skills to play with it, but the features are very cool
> I agree though, my dream for years has been an open source CubeSat bus design that covers say 80% of academic CubeSat use cases and can be modified by the user for the other 20%
Surely this, or something like it, exists?
Well, the point of a student's project is to reinvent the wheel.
One should limit the number of wheels being reinvented each time, though. What would also reduce the time-to-space of those projects. The design should cover 100% of the CubeSat, so the students can redesign any part they want.