Quub LLCVerified

Quub is a small space technology company in the Lancaster area of Pennsylvania, in the United States. It builds, launches and runs its own group of small, low-cost satellites. These satellites take frequent images of the Earth. Quub turns that imagery into useful data for water utilities, farming, disaster response, infrastructure and defense. The company calls itself a data company first. Its goal is to make space more open to everyone. It also wants to challenge old ideas about how satellites are built and run.

What Quub does

Quub compares its satellites to a smartwatch. A smartwatch tracks your heart rate and warns you when something is wrong. Quub's satellites do the same for the planet. They are small and light and built mostly from off-the-shelf parts. This keeps cost down and lets Quub build a network fast. The aim is a network that updates every 15 minutes, for a moving picture of what happens on the ground. Ground systems use AI to turn the data into decisions.

What the satellites watch

• Water: wastewater, coastline erosion, floods and flood risk, and water pollution.
• Forests: wildfires, timber, forest density and leaf cover.
• Crops: yield forecasts, blight, insect damage and soil moisture.
• Air quality: industrial emissions, aerosols, particles and methane plumes.

Products and platforms

• Hyperion PocketQube Deployer: a system that holds small PocketQube satellites, from 1P to 6P, safely during launch and releases them cleanly in orbit. It suits test missions, science payloads, commercial groups of satellites and school projects.
• CubeSat and SmallSat platforms from 1U up to 12U and larger, with custom payload fitting.
• Earth observation with multispectral and hyperspectral imaging.
• Satellite links for IoT and machine-to-machine data, and low-cost ground stations.

Who it serves

Quub gives data to government and private groups to help them prevent and reduce the effects of climate change. For defense and intelligence partners, its satellites gather timely data to help spot and prepare for threats. It also serves agriculture, disaster response, telecoms, and schools and universities. The company likes to keep space science in classrooms. It uses and adds to open source projects when it can. It designs for less space debris and uses parts that can be reused or upgraded.

Contact

Email: info@quub.space