CubeSat
noun
CubeSat is a noun meaning “A standard, low-cost miniature satellite formed of small cubes” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-U-B-E-S-A-T, and it appears about once in every 15 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of CubeSat is CubeSats.
What does CubeSat mean?
noun
- 1
A standard, low-cost miniature satellite formed of small cubes.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of CubeSat
- CubeSats plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is CubeSat?
CubeSat appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 118,441st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does CubeSat come from?
Shortened from cube + satellite. Coined in 2000 as a trademark.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).