Aerospace · Recorded milestone

CubeSat standard satellites

Recorded year2003

Jordi Puig-Suari and Bob Twiggs's 10 cm CubeSat design first reaches orbit in 2003, letting universities and startups build cheap standard satellites.

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Built on

First satelliteRecorded · 1957enables
MicroprocessorRecorded · 1971enables

Led to

Whole Earth imaged dailyRecorded · 2017enables
Weather microsatellite swarmRecorded · 2023enables

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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.