ULA is making Cubesat secondary launches standard with Atlas V (and Vulcan) by 2017

[fredinno]

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2015/11/free-cubesat-rideshares-offered-ula-atlas-v-launches/

ULA is making cubesat dispensers standard on Atlas V (and eventually Vulcan) missions by 2017 (Delta is not doing this, as it is slated for retirement) launching up to 24 1U Cubesats, or 4 6U Cubesats per Atlas V launch as secondary payloads. This system adds a mass of 100 lbs (excluding the sats), and deploys the Cubesats next to the RL-10 Centaur engine. ULA will sell 24 of these slots to Cubesat slots to companies to use, while 6 of these is reserved for universities to use-for free. These 6 slots are awarded competitively.

[lukethecoder64]

Yay!!

[fredinno]

5 hours ago, lukethecoder64 said:

Yay!!

Maybe we can pretend this community is an university..

[ChrisSpace]

14 hours ago, fredinno said:

ULA is making cubesat dispensers standard on Atlas V (and eventually Vulcan) missions by 2017 (Delta is not doing this, as it is slated for retirement) launching up to 24 1U Cubesats, or 4 6U Cubesats per Atlas V launch as secondary payloads. This system adds a mass of 100 lbs (excluding the sats), and deploys the Cubesats next to the RL-10 Centaur engine. ULA will sell 24 of these slots to Cubesat slots to companies to use, while 6 of these is reserved for universities to use-for free. These 6 slots are awarded competitively.

So this is basically the ULA's equivalent of 'would you like fries with that'?

[fredinno]

2 hours ago, ChrisSpace said:

So this is basically the ULA's equivalent of 'would you like fries with that'?

Not really- how many Universities launch primary payloads on ULA rockets? It's more like giving out free fries into a school cafeteria.