The CubeSat Toolbox, for use with MATLAB®, provides you with the tools needed to design CubeSats - all within the MATLAB environment. The toolbox consists of the CubeSat module from the Spacecraft Control Toolbox with a subset of functions from the core toolbox; the Spacecraft Control Toolbox is not required.

A 15 day trial demo is available for university students. To request the demo, please send an email using your university email address.

Applications

• Trade studies.
• Visualization.
• Control system design.
• Communications Link Analysis.
• Power and Thermal Analysis.
• Orbit modeling and simulation.
• Generate orbits from Two-Line Element sets.
• Generate attitude profiles with sequences of primary and secondary alignments.
• Relative orbit simulations and coordinate transformations.
• Compute observation time windows of ground targets.
• Compute line of sight to GPS satellites.
• Compute the ground coverage of sensors pointing in arbitrary directions.
• Animate the orbits of multiple satellites with sensor cones.

The toolbox is applicable to any small satellite project even though it contains CubeSat specific functions.

Resources

Download the "Getting Started" guide here.

View the CubeSat Toolbox API. This gives a description of every function included in the CubeSat Module as well as the subset functions of other modules that are included with the CubeSat toolbox.

License

The license for the CubeSat toolbox is for an entire university CubeSat or nanosatellite team. Up to 10 users may register for technical support. To register a user you must send Princeton Satellite Systems a list of user's names and their university email address. gmail, etc. addresses will not be accepted.