Improving Mission Success of CubeSats

A team made up of engineers from leading aerospace companies including The Aerospace Corporation investigated the causes of CubeSat mission failure and created recommendations on how to improve mission success documented in this paper, "Improving Mission Success of CubeSats."

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Catherine C. Venturini

Jun 12, 2017

The Mission Assurance Improvement Workshop (MAIW), a national space program dedicated to the development of mission success best practices, organized a team made up of engineers from leading aerospace companies including The Aerospace Corporation, to investigate the causes of CubeSat mission failure and create recommendations on how to improve mission success. Their findings were documented in a paper, "Improving Mission Success of CubeSats."

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