RapidCube-50
Rapid Cubes GmbH
50 kg class CubeSat platform with TMR, star tracker attitude control, and 4-year design life for demanding Earth observation, IoT, and science missions.
Technical specifications
- Mass Class
- 50 kg
- Payload Mass
- up to 20 kg
- Payload Power (Average)
- 30–50 W
- Payload Power (Peak)
- 60 W
- Attitude Pointing Accuracy
- ±0.5°
- Attitude Control
- Star tracker
- Redundancy
- Triple Modular Redundancy (TMR)
- Communications
- S-band TM/TC + X-band high-speed downlink
- Design Life
- 4 years
About
The RapidCube-50 is a 50 kg class small satellite platform designed for high-performance Earth observation, IoT, and scientific missions requiring longer mission life and greater payload capability. The platform incorporates Triple Modular Redundancy (TMR) architecture and star tracker-based attitude control enabling pointing accuracy of ±0.5°.
The RapidCube-50 accommodates up to 20 kg of payload mass and provides 30–50 W average payload power with 60 W peak. Communications use S-band for telemetry/telecommand and X-band for high-speed data downlink. The 4-year design life is double that of the smaller RapidCube platforms.
Documentation
No public datasheet yet — request the datasheet / ICD from the supplier.
