The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) is looking to better understand what CubeSat performance and capabilities are available from potential suppliers in Canada.
To that end they have issued a Request for Information (RFI) with a series of questions.
Those questions are:
- What is the flight heritage of your Cubesat(s)
- How many missions in space and how many years in space (functioning) per mission does your Cubesat(s) have accomplished?
- What is the design life of your Cubesat(s)?
- What size can you offer (can you offer 6U, 12U, 16U, any other)?
- What is the mass (without payload) for each?
- What is the volume, power and mass available to accommodate the payload?
- What is the heat dissipation capacity?
- What type of RF link (S Band?) do you support? What is the typical data bandwidth (Min, max, typical) for telecommand, for science data? Are you CCSDS compliant?
- Does your Cubesat have propulsion? What type? What performance?
- Does your Cubesat have GPS? What type? What performance?
- Does your Cubesat have ADCS? What type? What performance?
- Does your Cubesat have a star tracker? What type? What performance?
- Does you Cubesat have reaction wheels? What type? What performance?
- Does you Cubesat have magnetometer? What type? What performance?
- Can you provide an engineering model? Please describe its representativity vs the flight model
- Can you provide engineering support? Training? At what typical/ROM cost (non-binding)?
- What level of documentation can you provide – Please provide a list of typical documentation, e.g. interface, design, operational information, configuration, etc.
- Do you have certification data of the various tests that have been conducted on your Cubesat(s) (e.g. vibration, TVAC, etc.)?
- Can you provide a ROM cost – non-binding but indicative within 15% of your Cubesat(s) (bus only, no payload)?
The RFI is open December 23, 2025 at 16:00 EST.