Name

Pleiades-Yearling

Alternate Names

PROVES-Yearling

Satellite ID

JTWO-0218-7578-7568-1991

Temporary NORAD ID

99206

Followed NORAD ID

None

Website

https://www.broncospace.com/proves

Country of Origin

United States of America

Launch Date

2023-01-03T00:00:00+00:00

PROVES, or the Pleiades Rapid Orbital Verification Experimental System, is building Bronco Space’s next CubeSat. Yearling is a 1U scheduled to rideshare on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Transporter-6, reaching orbit in January 2023. PROVES-Yearling is built on the PyCubed architecture and is intended to serve as a lab bench in space. We have prioritized modularity and low-cost hardware to create a CubeSat kit that can be made available to other university CubeSat programs to provide a leg up in the development process. The PROVES kit will contain an unassembled structure, the novel Lovelace flight computer architecture, and a software handbook. Universities will also be able to access the open source files for the entire kit as well. The kit aims to bridge the knowledge gap between what undergraduates are taught and the knowledge required to engineer a spacecraft.