DEPENDABLE AND FLEXIBLE BOARD COMPUTER SOFTWARE FOR PICO SATELLITES

An increasing number of pico satellites, are currently being developed and tested in space. Based on the development of California Polytechnic State University and Space Stanford University, these so called CUBESAT’s with max 1 kg mass and 10 x 10 x 10 cm has the potential to become a very useful tool for space applications, if some of the key technologies such as a powerful and flexible board computer and attitude control devices can be adopted to this the very small form factor.