A fast-growing sector of Europe’s space economy, CubeSats are budget nanosatellites built up from standardised 10 cm cubic units – originally devised for educational uses, but increasingly capable of delivering valuable results from orbit.

Measuring less than 10 x 10 x 3 cm, including its connector, this new S-band antenna is designed for ‘telemetry, tracking and command’ purposes, meaning it will be used for uplinking commands to a CubeSat and downlinking platform and payload data.