CubeSat Launch Initiative ELaNa 20 Rocket: LauncherOne Launch Date: 1/17/2021

Nominal Orbit: ~500 x 500 km

Mission Name Mission Description Payload(s) Organization(s)

PolarCube This mission will use a 3U to collect Earth surface and atmospheric 

temperature data using a passive microwave radiometer operating at 

the 118.7503 GHz O2 resonant frequency. The objective is to collect 

brightness temperature spectra at high spatial resolution at a very low 

cost for remote sensing science and technology evaluation. 

MiniRad radiometer University of Colorado at Boulder, 

Colorado

MiTEE (Miniature Tether 

Electrodynamics 

Experiment)

The 3U will demonstrate and assess an ultra-small satellite 

electrodynamic tether in the space environment where the 

fundamental dynamics and plasma electrodynamics.

Langmuir probe Instrument University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

CACTUS-1 (Coordinated 

Applied Capitol 

Technology University 

Satellite 1)

This 3U technological demonstration mission will implore the costsaving communications and commanding innovation that will enable 

scientific data gathering and contribute risk parameterization and 

mitigation services to aid both academic and industry teams in future 

missions.

Project TRAPSat a debris-capturing experiment & 

Project HERMES an Onboard Spacecraft Hotspot 

Communications (OSHComm) Subsystem 

Capitol Technology University

Q-PACE (CubeSat 

Particle Aggregation and 

Collision Experiment)

The 3U spacecraft that will observe a set of 0.1 mm to cm-sized particles 

colliding at the very low speeds made possible by its microgravity 

environment in orbit around the Earth.

GoPro video camera and an Experiment Test Cell University of Central Florida

TechEdSat-7 This project is a 2U that will continue the iterative testing and 

demonstating of controlled deorbiting using the Exo-Brake . 

High Packing Density Exo-Brake NASA’s Ames Research Center, San 

Jose State University, Santa Clara 

University

RadFXSat-2 (Radiation 

Effects Satellite), also 

FOX-1E

1U cubesat technology demonstration mission hosts both an amateur 

communications payload as well as a scientific or technological 

payload, to operate in Low Earth Orbit based on the design of Fox 1A. 

The purpose of the project is to test a design for a linear transponder 

that could be made available to CubeSat builders.

Radiation effects experiment, Mode J linear 

transponder

Vanderbilt University, AMSAT

EXOCUBE-2 A 3U spacecraft will directly measure the density Hydrogen, Oxygen, 

Helium and Nitrogen in the upper atmosphere during its entire orbit. 

Neutral Static Energy Angle Analyzer 

(NSEAA), the Ion Static Energy Analyzer (ISEAA), 

and the Total Ion Monitor (TIM)

California Polytechnic University, 

San Luis Obispo, sponsored by NSF 

(National Science Foundation)

CAPE-3 (Cajun Advanced 

Picosat Experiment 3)

This is an educational 1U mission that will fly the Smartphone CubeSat 

Classroom, a kit that allows anyone with a smartphone to set up a 

ground station. Interactive educational activities will give students the 

ability to interact with the CubeSat via an app on their smartphone, and 

use their smartphone to design their own CubeSat experiments.

Smartphone CubeSat University of Louisiana, Lafayette

PICS-1, -2 (Passive 

Inspection CubeSat)

This mission consists of two 1U spacecraft that will demonstrate 

ultrafast booting and power-up operation of system electronics and 

the low-risk inspection of the exterior of a spacecraft by a passive, 

flyaway probe.

Camera array Brigham Young University