CNC milling · one-off, four-day turnaround
CubeSat structure
CAD model
Published with the customer's permission.
An enquiry came in for twenty units. We quoted, and heard nothing for a month. Then, on a Friday: one unit, needed in Kyiv by Tuesday. We had the material and we priced the weekend. The customer agreed.
How it was made
- The cube is built as two halves. Each half was cut complete in a single setup, so every feature on it shares one datum and nothing depends on repositioning accuracy.
- The halves were then joined and the remaining four faces machined as one body. The outer form is true across the joint because it was cut after assembly, not before — the seam cannot show as a step.
- Polished and shipped.
What happened next
A month later the customer sent us video from Cape Canaveral: a launch carrying a satellite built by a Kyiv university. Small, and very cubic.