SBUDNIC

SBUDNIC was a 3U CubeSat designed and built by an interdisciplinary group of undergraduate and graduate students at Brown University and the National [Research Council |National Research Council] of Italy, for research and educational purposes. The satellite was an open-source hardware project designed to be cheaply and easily reproduced, using commercial off-the-shelf parts like an Arduino Nano and AA Energizer batteries.
The project was financed by Brown's Undergraduate Finance Board, the National Research Council of Italy, and Rhode Island's National [Space Grant College and Fellowship Program|NASA Space Grant Consortium]. The satellite was deployed from D-Orbit's ION Satellite Carrier on the SpaceX Falcon 9 Transporter 5 mission.
The satellite decayed from orbit on 10 August 2023.