This document is also a good read. 

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/improving_mission_success_of_cubesats_-_tor-2017-01689.pdf

73,
Mike Diehl
W8LID/VE6LID

On Jan 31, 2021, at 11:16, Bruce Perens via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb@amsat.org> wrote:




On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 8:06 AM Brad Smith via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb@amsat.org> wrote:
 
Are there not published guidelines for what to use, or do we just let organizations fail? Brad KC9UQR

AMSAT had a plan to help universities in exchange for having Amateur Radio as a secondary payload, which I think unfortunately has recently still yielded two partially-working or completely broken satellites. And of course if AMSAT's satellite designs were fully open, that could help.

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