BurstCube
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NASA CubeSat launched from the International Space Station in 2024
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An individual circuit board rests on a lab bench. The BurstCube mission will use these boards to process data collected from gamma-ray bursts, the most energetic explosions in the cosmos. Credit: NASA/Sophia Roberts
Cables connect a card stack to the Electrical Power Subsystem for testing. Even small missions like BurstCube require multiple rounds of verification before they’re ready for launch. Credit: NASA/Sophia Roberts
Circuit boards are inserted into a card stack, like the one shown here, before they’re tested and attached to the baseplate of BurstCube’s spacecraft housing.Credit: NASA/Sophia Roberts
NASA engineers Franklin Robinson, Elliot Schwartz, and Colton Cohill secure the lid of a thermal vacuum chamber at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
This photo shows engineers attaching BurstCube to the platform of a thermal vacuum chamber at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.



