Hardware/Components
Satellite Components and Suppliers
What each supplier sells, from CubeSat platforms to laser terminals, with the specs and flight heritage they publish
Products
46
in 12 categories
Suppliers
29
from 11 countries
Flight proven
26
have flown in space
Satellite buses
14
CubeSat to 1,000 kg+ payloads
Propulsion
9
electric and green chemical
Catalogue
46 products from 29 suppliers
| Product | Supplier | Category | Key specs | Mass | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| XACT-50 attitude control system Integrated star tracker, reaction wheels and magnetorquers. | Blue Canyon Technologies United States | Attitude control CubeSat | 50 mNms, 0.0028-0.0069 degree pointing | 1.23 kg | Flight proven | satnow.com ↗ |
| CubeADCS Core Gen 2 CubeSpace has delivered over 200 systems. | CubeSpace South Africa | Attitude control CubeSat | Scalable attitude control system, reprogrammable in orbit, about $21,000 | — | Flight proven | CubeSatShop ↗ |
| Rudra green propulsion system | Bellatrix Aerospace India | Chemical propulsion Smallsat | Green monopropellant | — | Offered | SatNow (Mar 2026) ↗ |
| Halcyon green propulsion system | Benchmark Space Systems United States | Chemical propulsion Smallsat | 0.25-10 N thrusters, 150-170 s Isp, high-test peroxide | — | Flight proven | satnow.com ↗ |
| iBooster green propulsion system Delivered to DRDO in December 2024; its thruster fired for 700 seconds in orbit on POEM-4 in 2025. Mass is the wet upper bound (15-20 kg). | Manastu Space India | Chemical propulsion Smallsat (100-500 kg) | Four 1 N thrusters, about 250 s Isp, hydrogen peroxide-alcohol propellant | 20 kg | Flight proven | Manastu Space ↗ |
| ARKA 5000 Hall thruster | Bellatrix Aerospace India | Electric propulsion Smallsat and larger | 260 mN thrust, 2,000 s Isp, 5 kW | — | Offered | satnow.com ↗ |
| BHT-200 Hall thruster Flown on TacSat-2, FalconSat-5 and FalconSat-6. | Busek United States | Electric propulsion Smallsat | 200 W, 13 mN thrust, 1,390 s Isp | — | Flight proven | Busek ↗ |
| ENPULSION NANO thruster Wet mass: under 1.28 kg dry plus 215 g of indium. | Enpulsion Austria | Electric propulsion CubeSat and smallsat | Field-emission (FEEP): 150-350 µN, 2,500 s Isp, 30-50 W, indium | 1.5 kg | Flight proven | ENPULSION datasheet (Mar 2026) ↗ |
| ExoMG nano Hall thruster First fired in orbit in January 2021 on a NanoAvionics CubeSat. | Exotrail France | Electric propulsion CubeSat and smallsat | Smallest Hall thruster flown (as of 2021) | — | Flight proven | EPIC (Jan 2021) ↗ |
| Maxwell RF plasma thruster | Phase Four United States | Electric propulsion Smallsat | Below 7 mN, below 400 s Isp, 300-500 W, xenon | 5.9 kg | Offered | satsearch ↗ |
| NPT30-I2 iodine ion thruster The first iodine-fuelled electric thruster to fire in orbit (announced January 2021). | ThrustMe France | Electric propulsion CubeSat and smallsat | Gridded ion, solid iodine, up to 5,500 N·s total impulse in 1U | — | Flight proven | ThrustMe ↗ |
| Fineview electro-optical payload | Azista BST Aerospace India | Imaging payload Smallsat | 47 cm ground sample distance | — | Offered | satsearch ↗ |
| AstroLink optical inter-satellite link Targets a 2027 launch as India's first home-grown optical inter-satellite link. | Astrogate Labs India | Optical terminal Smallsat | Free-space optical link | — | In development | The Machine Maker ↗ |
| CONDOR Mk3 optical terminal Passed verification and interoperability tests for the Space Development Agency standard. | Mynaric Germany | Optical terminal Smallsat | 0.3-2.5 Gbps, over 6,500 km, SDA optical standard compliant | — | Qualified | Mynaric ↗ |
| SCOT80 laser communication terminal Chosen for Telesat Lightspeed. Mass per optical channel. | Tesat-Spacecom Germany | Optical terminal Smallsat and larger | 2.5 or 10 Gbps, up to 8,000 km, 60-80 W | 11.9 kg | Flight proven | satnow.com ↗ |
| Pushpak orbital transfer vehicle | Bellatrix Aerospace India | Orbital transfer vehicle | Carries rideshare satellites to their final orbits | — | In development | SatNow (Mar 2026) ↗ |
| 1 Gbps X-band transmitter | Azista BST Aerospace India | Radio and antenna Smallsat | 1 Gbps X-band downlink | — | Offered | satsearch ↗ |
| Nightingale phased-array payload TRL 9. | CesiumAstro United States | Radio and antenna Smallsat | Steerable Ka-band (24.5-29.3 GHz) active phased array | 4.8 kg | Flight proven | CesiumAstro ↗ |
| Frontier-S radio Flew on the Photon spacecraft that sent NASA's CAPSTONE to the Moon. | Rocket Lab United States | Radio and antenna Smallsat | Ranging RF transceiver | — | Flight proven | Rocket Lab announcement (Feb 2023) ↗ |
| Frontier-X radio Rated for GEO and deep space; chosen for NASA's ESCAPADE mission. | Rocket Lab United States | Radio and antenna Smallsat, deep space | X-band software-defined radio and transponder | — | Qualified | Rocket Lab announcement (Feb 2023) ↗ |
| 12 Nms reaction wheel Announced in 2023 for a mega-constellation customer; radiation-hard and LEO versions. | Rocket Lab United States | Reaction wheel Smallsat | 12 Nms momentum, for spacecraft up to about 650 kg | — | In development | Rocket Lab announcement (Feb 2023) ↗ |
| RW4-1.0 reaction wheel GEO-rated wheel derived from the RW3-1.0, which has 52 units in orbit. | Rocket Lab United States | Reaction wheel Smallsat | 1.0 Nms momentum, ±100 mNm torque | 1.38 kg | Flight proven | Rocket Lab product sheet ↗ |
| Aries (LEO) bus First flew in 2024. | Apex Space United States | Satellite bus Smallsat | 125 kg dry, up to 150 kg payload, 175 W+ for payload | 125 kg | Flight proven | Apex ↗ |
| LEOS-50 bus Flew as ABA First Runner on a Falcon 9 rideshare in June 2023. Developed with Berlin Space Technologies. | Azista BST Aerospace India | Satellite bus Microsat | 80 kg Earth observation satellite, no propulsion | — | Flight proven | Gunter's Space Page ↗ |
| X-SAT Saturn-class bus | Blue Canyon Technologies United States | Satellite bus Smallsat | Up to 200 kg payload | — | Flight proven | SatCatalog ↗ |
| P-30 nanosatellite platform Flagship bus for Dhruva's LEAP hosted-payload missions; qualified on LEAP-TD. | Dhruva Space India | Satellite bus Nanosat | 20-50 kg, electric propulsion, hosts payloads up to 12U and 15 kg | — | Flight proven | Dhruva Space ↗ |
| P-DoT CubeSat platform Space-qualified on the Thybolt mission. | Dhruva Space India | Satellite bus CubeSat | 0.5U-12U, 1-24 kg, pointing to 0.1 degree, up to 5 years | — | Flight proven | Dhruva Space ↗ |
| P-Nu microsatellite platform Also called P-90. | Dhruva Space India | Satellite bus Microsat | Up to 500 kg, station-keeping propulsion | — | Offered | Dhruva Space ↗ |
| FRAME L platform | EnduroSat Bulgaria | Satellite bus Medium and large | 500 kg, 7 kW peak power | — | Offered | EnduroSat ↗ |
| FRAME S platform EnduroSat cites over 100 satellites deployed across its products. | EnduroSat Bulgaria | Satellite bus Smallsat | 200 kg, 3.4 kW peak power | — | Offered | EnduroSat ↗ |
| CubeSat platform kits (6U to 16U) GomSpace cites 18 years of flight heritage for its standard products. | GomSpace Denmark | Satellite bus CubeSat | 6U, 8U, 12U and 16U kits with power, radio, computer and attitude control | — | Flight proven | GomSpace ↗ |
| MP42 microsatellite bus Kongsberg NanoAvionics unveiled a larger MP42D in 2026. | NanoAvionics Lithuania | Satellite bus Microsat | 30 kg dry mass | 30 kg | Offered | SatCatalog ↗ |
| XDSAT M200 platform XDLINX also offers 6U and 16U CubeSat platforms and M400 and M600 buses. | XDLINX Space Labs India | Satellite bus Microsat | 50-80 kg class, 25-40 kg payload, 200 W, ±0.002 degree pointing | — | Offered | satsearch ↗ |
| LX-CLASS bus | York Space Systems United States | Satellite bus Smallsat | 300 kg+ payload, 1.5 kW peak | — | Offered | York Space Systems ↗ |
| M-CLASS bus | York Space Systems United States | Satellite bus Medium and large | 1,000 kg+ payload, 8 kW+ peak | — | Offered | York Space Systems ↗ |
| S-CLASS bus ESPA and ESPA-Grande compatible. | York Space Systems United States | Satellite bus Smallsat | 85 kg+ payload, 500 W peak (up to 1 kW) | — | Flight proven | York Space Systems ↗ |
| DSOD satellite orbital deployers 3U and 6U versions space-qualified on PSLV-C55 in 2023. | Dhruva Space India | Satellite deployer CubeSat | 1U to 16U, non-pyrotechnic release | — | Flight proven | Dhruva Space press release ↗ |
| EXOpod Nova CubeSat deployer EXOpod deployers have flown 382 CubeSats on 31 missions. | Exolaunch Germany | Satellite deployer CubeSat | 6U/8U, 12U and 16U versions | — | Flight proven | Exolaunch brochure (Jul 2025) ↗ |
| QuadPack CubeSat deployer Over 10 years of flight heritage. Mass 6.6-8.1 kg depending on version. | ISISPACE Netherlands | Satellite deployer CubeSat | 1U to 16U configurations | 8.1 kg | Flight proven | ISISPACE ↗ |
| Solis solar arrays Used on Dhruva's P-30 platform. | Dhruva Space India | Solar array CubeSat and smallsat | Triple-junction GaAs cells above 30% efficiency; Solis+ up to a few kW | — | Offered | satsearch supplier snapshot ↗ |
| ROSA roll-out solar array Powers the ISS (iROSA) and flew on NASA's DART. | Redwire United States | Solar array Smallsat to large | 3.3-37 kW at beginning of life, 71-124 W/kg | — | Flight proven | Redwire ↗ |
| Sagitta star tracker | arcsec Belgium | Star tracker CubeSat and smallsat | Arcsecond-range accuracy, built-in baffle | — | Offered | satsearch supplier snapshot ↗ |
| Twinkle star tracker | arcsec Belgium | Star tracker CubeSat | Arcsecond-range accuracy | — | Offered | satsearch supplier snapshot ↗ |
| ASTRO CL star tracker | Jena-Optronik Germany | Star tracker Smallsat | Radiation-hard, 6-72 arcsec, 1 W | 305 g | Flight proven | satnow.com ↗ |
| ST-16RT2 star tracker Flown on GHGSat-C3, Lemur and Mandrake-1. Mass without baffle. | Rocket Lab United States | Star tracker CubeSat and smallsat | 5-55 arcsec accuracy, 2 Hz, 0.5-1 W | 158 g | Flight proven | satnow.com ↗ |
| Auriga-CP star tracker | Sodern France | Star tracker Smallsat | 225 g optical head, 0.8 W, up to 10 years in LEO or GEO | 225 g | Flight proven | satnow.com ↗ |
Specs are copied from the supplier's page or datasheet linked on each row and are left blank where the supplier doesn't publish them. "Flight proven" means the supplier or a mission report says the product has flown. Links are checked monthly. Suppliers can send corrections or new products through the About page.