AeroCube 1, 2, 3, 4

AeroCube 3 [The Aerospace Corporation]

The AeroCube cubesats are 1 kg Nanosatellites for technical research. They are built and operated by the Aerospace Corporation.

The launch of AeroCube 1 was not successful, as the Dnepr failed 86 sec after launch.

AeroCube 2 was successfully orbited on a Dnepr, but failed immediately after launch due to a faulty power system. It was to have deployed a balloon as a deorbit device at the end of the mission.

AeroCube 3 was successfully launched to orbit on a Minotaur-1 and conducted imaging experiments, a tether experiment and deployed a balloon as a deorbit device at the end of the mission.

Aerocube 4 was launched successfully on a Atlas-5(401) rocket and consists of a launch vehicle environment data logger and deorbit device demonstration.

Aerocube 4a and 4b, also called the Aerocube 4.5 series, were successufully launched with AeroCube 4 and implement a smallsat communications tech demonstration.