[Michael Hill]

I was on a team working on a cubesat constellation. We have a series of courses at AFIT dedicated to cubesat design. First quarter was doing things like developing a SysML model (following INCOSE and NASA SE Handbook), developing the CONOPS, deriving requirements, and basically doing feasibility studies and stuff like that. The second quarter (which I didn't do), was taking those projects and taking them further to actually develop a more refined model (including CAD). The third quarter is about actually manufacturing and testing an engineering unit. From then on, if funded, it goes to creating a launch model and will get launched. Typical budget was $500k per satellite and $1M per satellite for launch.