{"guid":"ca519e2e-822d-575f-822f-855dceaf7682","title":"What's that CubeSat Satellite stuff anyhow?","subtitle":null,"slug":"why2025-94-what-s-that-cubesat-satellite-stuff-anyhow","link":"https://program.why2025.org/why2025/talk/LZSAXB/","description":"CubeSats are small satellites comprised of 10x10x10cm \"units\" and range in size from very small 1U or smaller PocketQubes to 24U beasts. What can be achieved with such a satellite platform and why?\n\nI will go in to a brief history with examples from customers and amateur radio CubeSats.\n\nDuring my 20 years working with CubeSats, starting with designing parts of the Delfi-C3 student satellite in 2005, I have seen many missions and I have been involved in the design of quite a few CubeSats. Often, people ask me \"what can you do with such a small satellite\" and that prompted me to create this talk!\n\nLicensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","original_language":"eng","persons":["Wouter"],"tags":["94","2025","why2025","The square hole","Brachium","why2025-eng","Day 3"],"view_count":130,"promoted":false,"date":"2025-08-09T16:00:00.000+02:00","release_date":"2025-08-10T00:00:00.000+02:00","updated_at":"2026-03-10T18:45:09.751+01:00","length":2888,"duration":2888,"thumb_url":"https://static.media.ccc.de/media/events/why2025/94-ca519e2e-822d-575f-822f-855dceaf7682.jpg","poster_url":"https://static.media.ccc.de/media/events/why2025/94-ca519e2e-822d-575f-822f-855dceaf7682_preview.jpg","timeline_url":"https://static.media.ccc.de/media/events/why2025/94-ca519e2e-822d-575f-822f-855dceaf7682.timeline.jpg","thumbnails_url":"https://static.media.ccc.de/media/events/why2025/94-ca519e2e-822d-575f-822f-855dceaf7682.thumbnails.vtt","frontend_link":"https://media.ccc.de/v/why2025-94-what-s-that-cubesat-satellite-stuff-anyhow","url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/events/ca519e2e-822d-575f-822f-855dceaf7682","conference_title":"What Hackers Yearn 2025","conference_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/conferences/WHY2025","related":[],"recordings":[{"size":546,"length":2888,"mime_type":"video/webm;codecs=av01","language":"eng","filename":"why2025-94-eng-Whats_that_CubeSat_Satellite_stuff_anyhow_av1-hd.webm","state":"new","folder":"av1-hd","high_quality":true,"width":1920,"height":1080,"updated_at":"2025-08-10T21:42:05.739+02:00","recording_url":"https://cdn.media.ccc.de/events/why2025/av1-hd/why2025-94-eng-Whats_that_CubeSat_Satellite_stuff_anyhow_av1-hd.webm","url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/recordings/89286","event_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/events/ca519e2e-822d-575f-822f-855dceaf7682","conference_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/conferences/WHY2025"},{"size":44,"length":2888,"mime_type":"audio/mpeg","language":"eng","filename":"why2025-94-eng-Whats_that_CubeSat_Satellite_stuff_anyhow_mp3.mp3","state":"new","folder":"mp3","high_quality":false,"width":0,"height":0,"updated_at":"2025-08-10T20:49:53.511+02:00","recording_url":"https://cdn.media.ccc.de/events/why2025/mp3/why2025-94-eng-Whats_that_CubeSat_Satellite_stuff_anyhow_mp3.mp3","url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/recordings/89274","event_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/events/ca519e2e-822d-575f-822f-855dceaf7682","conference_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/conferences/WHY2025"},{"size":28,"length":2888,"mime_type":"audio/opus","language":"eng","filename":"why2025-94-eng-Whats_that_CubeSat_Satellite_stuff_anyhow_opus.opus","state":"new","folder":"opus","high_quality":false,"width":0,"height":0,"updated_at":"2025-08-10T20:49:49.212+02:00","recording_url":"https://cdn.media.ccc.de/events/why2025/opus/why2025-94-eng-Whats_that_CubeSat_Satellite_stuff_anyhow_opus.opus","url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/recordings/89273","event_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/events/ca519e2e-822d-575f-822f-855dceaf7682","conference_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/conferences/WHY2025"},{"size":642,"length":2888,"mime_type":"video/webm","language":"eng","filename":"why2025-94-eng-Whats_that_CubeSat_Satellite_stuff_anyhow_webm-hd.webm","state":"new","folder":"webm-hd","high_quality":true,"width":1920,"height":1080,"updated_at":"2025-08-10T22:00:20.403+02:00","recording_url":"https://cdn.media.ccc.de/events/why2025/webm-hd/why2025-94-eng-Whats_that_CubeSat_Satellite_stuff_anyhow_webm-hd.webm","url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/recordings/89287","event_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/events/ca519e2e-822d-575f-822f-855dceaf7682","conference_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/conferences/WHY2025"},{"size":131,"length":2888,"mime_type":"video/webm","language":"eng","filename":"why2025-94-eng-Whats_that_CubeSat_Satellite_stuff_anyhow_webm-sd.webm","state":"new","folder":"webm-sd","high_quality":false,"width":720,"height":576,"updated_at":"2025-08-10T21:35:43.205+02:00","recording_url":"https://cdn.media.ccc.de/events/why2025/webm-sd/why2025-94-eng-Whats_that_CubeSat_Satellite_stuff_anyhow_webm-sd.webm","url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/recordings/89285","event_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/events/ca519e2e-822d-575f-822f-855dceaf7682","conference_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/conferences/WHY2025"},{"size":165,"length":2888,"mime_type":"video/mp4","language":"eng","filename":"why2025-94-eng-Whats_that_CubeSat_Satellite_stuff_anyhow_sd.mp4","state":"new","folder":"h264-sd","high_quality":false,"width":720,"height":576,"updated_at":"2025-08-10T20:56:26.046+02:00","recording_url":"https://cdn.media.ccc.de/events/why2025/h264-sd/why2025-94-eng-Whats_that_CubeSat_Satellite_stuff_anyhow_sd.mp4","url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/recordings/89276","event_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/events/ca519e2e-822d-575f-822f-855dceaf7682","conference_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/conferences/WHY2025"},{"size":787,"length":2888,"mime_type":"video/mp4","language":"eng","filename":"why2025-94-eng-Whats_that_CubeSat_Satellite_stuff_anyhow_hd.mp4","state":"new","folder":"h264-hd","high_quality":true,"width":1920,"height":1080,"updated_at":"2025-08-10T20:49:13.998+02:00","recording_url":"https://cdn.media.ccc.de/events/why2025/h264-hd/why2025-94-eng-Whats_that_CubeSat_Satellite_stuff_anyhow_hd.mp4","url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/recordings/89272","event_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/events/ca519e2e-822d-575f-822f-855dceaf7682","conference_url":"https://api.media.ccc.de/public/conferences/WHY2025"}]}