Near Term Technical Activities

1. Structure and configuration: custom vs COTS trade-off
2. Review and revise power budget and modelling with CubeSat attitude
3. Flight software testing and sandboxing
4. Bootloader development
5. Mission control software development
6. End-to-end flight software bootup and operations with mission control software in-the-loop simulation
7. Modify solar panel design, ensure it interfaces with custom and COTS structures
8. Attitude control + power modeling
9. Orbital Analysis (ground station access window, lifetime analysis, attitude profile analysis)
10. Systems engineering: interface control, system budgets maintenance, system test planning
11. All the integration and test plans

Near Term Management Activities

1. Apply for licenses
2. Apply for waiver

Near Term Programmatic Activities

1. CubeSat club
2. Outreach

Current Ukpik-1 Schedule

Detailed Design Definition

• Phase C1: CubeSat system detailed design study ** -- August 2020**
• Pre-CDR Review October 2020
• Phase C2: CubeSat detailed design & AIT planning ** Oct 2020 - March 2021**
• Critical Design Review (CDR) ** 6 - 7 March **
• Western Space Day Presentations Apr 2021

Assembly, Integration, and Testing

• CubeSat AIT Summer 2021

• Flight Readiness Review Fall 2021 / Winter 2022

• CubeSat Delivery Winter 2022

Operations

• Operations Training Following Delivery
• Nominal Spaceflight Operations TBD Following Launch
• Ukpik-1 Operations Workshop TBD