Abstract
The CubeSat has very quickly become the “poster child” of the NewSpace Industry. From the original concept as an educational tool for university students, it has evolved, spread, and been adopted by emerging space nations, new industries, nonprofits, space agencies, and traditional aerospace and military companies. The burgeoning CubeSat community can take advantage of a variety of payloads and mission applications that CubeSats can support at economically attractive costs. The purpose of this chapter is to give an overview of the primary attributes of CubeSats that encouraged their rapid spread and adoption throughout the space sector, and why this also stimulated their use in such a wide variety of mission applications. In the following chapters a more detailed analysis of single applications is given.
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