MP42 Microsatellite Bus
NanoAvionics
NanoAvionics flagship microsatellite bus, up to 200 kg gross weight — flight-proven on the MP42 rideshare host mission.
Technical specifications
- Class
- Microsatellite bus
- Gross mass
- Up to 200 kg
- First flight
- 2022 (SpaceX Transporter-5)
- Flight heritage
- 60+ satellites launched, 300+ in production (per nanoavionics.com)
About
MP42 is NanoAvionics’ microsatellite platform — a high-performance bus for payloads up to a 200 kg-class spacecraft. The MP42 baseline supports a wide range of mission profiles (Earth observation, IoT, communications, technology demonstration) with modular avionics inherited from the M-series CubeSats and scaled up.
NanoAvionics first flew an MP42 host satellite on the SpaceX Transporter-5 rideshare in 2022, deploying multiple hosted payloads in orbit.
Documentation
No public datasheet yet — request the datasheet / ICD from the supplier.
