CubeSat

miniaturized satellite made up of 10cm-sided cubic modules
class spacecraft_class Q1142930
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CubeSat

Summary

CubeSat is a spacecraft class[1]. CubeSat draws 619 Wikipedia views per month (spacecraft_class category, ranking #1 of 6).[2]

Key Facts

  • CubeSat is credited with the discovery of Jordi Puig-Suari[3].
  • CubeSat is credited with the discovery of Bob Twiggs[4].
  • CubeSat's image is recorded as Ncube2.jpg[5].
  • CubeSat's image is recorded as CubeSat in hand.jpg[6].
  • CubeSat's image is recorded as Winglet Pumpkin Solar Pannels for CubeSat.png[7].
  • CubeSat's instance of is recorded as spacecraft class[8].
  • CubeSat's subclass of is recorded as robotic spacecraft[9].
  • CubeSat's subclass of is recorded as small satellite[10].
  • CubeSat's Commons category is recorded as CubeSat satellites[11].
  • CubeSat's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02zr06[12].
  • CubeSat's official website is recorded as https://www.cubesat.org/[13].
  • CubeSat's topic's main category is recorded as Category:CubeSats[14].
  • CubeSat's BBC Things ID is recorded as 4c51a268-bb97-4e37-bf44-f17edaed85f6[15].
  • CubeSat's has list is recorded as list of CubeSats[16].
  • CubeSat's BabelNet ID is recorded as 03486013n[17].
  • CubeSat's 3D model is recorded as CubeSat - 2 RU Generic - 2RU-GenericCubesat.stl[18].
  • CubeSat's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2775936636[19].
  • CubeSat's MetaSat ID is recorded as cubeSat[20].
  • CubeSat's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C2775936636[21].

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Works and Contributions

Credited discoveries include Jordi Puig-Suari[3], an engineer[22], b. 1901[23], of United States[24], awarded the Saint George's Cross[25] and Bob Twiggs[4], an engineer[26], b. 1935[27], of United States[28], specialised in aerospace engineering[29].

Why It Matters

CubeSat draws 619 Wikipedia views per month (spacecraft_class category, ranking #1 of 6).[2] CubeSat has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] CubeSat is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] . wikidata.org.
  4. [8] . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] . wikidata.org.
  6. [4] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [22] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [23] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [24] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [25] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [26] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [27] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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