Professor Bob Twiggs (co-creator of CubeSats) demonstrated again that very low cost satellites, made from commercial electronics, are viable in low Earth orbit. Their new PocketQube proposal in 2009 (50 mm cube and a mass of 250 grams) was a solution to increasing costs of CubeSats launches. Eagle 2 ($50Sat or MO 76) was launched together with the also PocketQubes Eagle1, QBScout and WREN, and deployed from UniSat 5 satellite.

Launch date: November 21, 2013
Satellite Catalog No: NORAD ID 39436
Int'l Designator: COSPAR 2013-066W
Aplication: Amateur Radio
Configuration: 1.5U PocketQube
Tags: Space Nanosatellite PocketQube COTS HamRadio