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light weight, high vibration resistance, hard anodized aluminum rails for electrical insulation

Ready-made Chassises are expensive, so we build inhouse.

Cubesat Kit from Pumpkin Co.


Unlike normal solar cells you see every day, we need a highly efficient solar cell to build a panel. And to fix the cell onto the panel, we need space-grade silicon adhesive. The problem is that most of these parts are export licensed - i.e. hard to import. But we have good alternative, as follows:

TASC Solar Cell by Spectrolab