12U SUPERNOVA CubeSat Bus
Pumpkin, Inc.
Flight-proven 12U CubeSat bus with 10U payload volume, 105–110W peak solar power, Linux computing, and 1° pointing accuracy.
Technical specifications
- Form Factor
- 12U CubeSat
- Payload Volume
- 10U
- Peak Solar Power (BoL)
- 105–110 W
- Peak Payload Power
- 160 W
- Energy Storage
- 100 Wh
- Bus Voltage
- 3.3–30 V
- Data Storage
- 32 GB
- Downlink Data Rate
- <100 Mbps
- Pointing Accuracy
- 1° @ 0.01°/s
- Attitude Knowledge
- 20 arcsec
- Design Life (LEO)
- 5 years
- Design Life (GEO)
- 2 years
- Lead Time
- 6 months
About
The Pumpkin 12U SUPERNOVA is the company’s largest complete nanosatellite bus, providing 10U of payload volume. It features 105–110W peak solar power, up to 160W peak payload power, 32GB data storage, and multi-band RF supporting data rates up to 100 Mbps downlink. Bus voltage is configurable 3.3–30V with 100Wh energy storage.
Pointing accuracy is 1° at 0.01°/s with 20 arcsec attitude knowledge. The bus runs a 1 GHz ARM Cortex-A8 processor with Linux. Design lifetimes are 5 years LEO and 2 years GEO with a 6-month standard lead time.
Documentation
No public datasheet yet — request the datasheet / ICD from the supplier.
