RADCUBE IOD 3U CubeSat Mission
April 19, 2021
The time has come to share news about our entry into yet another industry. We first made contact with the Hungarian space sector back in December 2015. Since early 2018, we have completed several space-industry manufacturing projects. The very first was our participation in the RADCUBE 3U mission, during which we initially manufactured the complete mechanical assembly of the RadMag radiation measuring unit for the Centre for Energy Research — both the engineering development and the flight model — and then produced the Radcube satellite frame structure, the antenna deployment unit, and the associated PCB holders for C3S.
The RADCUBE 3U satellite was built in cooperation with the European Space Agency, under the consortium leadership of C3S Ltd., with the Centre for Energy Research coordinating the scientific experiments in the payload bay. While the project is led by Hungarian experts, a number of international partners are also involved: Poland’s Astronika and the International College of London (UK) developed key parts of the scientific experiment device. Supporting suppliers also played an important role — Spain’s DHV contributed to the solar panel wing, and Belgium’s KU Leuven team worked on the attitude stabilisation device. In addition to the platform and the RadMag instrument, two ESA experiments — one on radiation tolerance and one on in-orbit radio frequency testing — are also set to reach orbit soon.
