SBUDNIC

{{Infobox spaceflight

| name = SBUDNIC

| image = SBUDNIC.jpg

| COSPAR_ID =

| SATCAT = 52774

| image_caption = SBUDNIC before launch in March, 2022

| mission_type = Education

| website = {{url|https://www.sbudnic.space}}

| mission_duration = 3–6 months planned

| spacecraft_type = 3U CubeSat

| manufacturer = Brown University SBUDNIC Team

| dry_mass = {{convert|5.5|kg|lb}}

| dimensions = 10cm x 10cm x 30cm

| decay_date = 10 August 2023{{cite web |url=https://www.n2yo.com/satellite/?s=52774 |title=SBUDNIC |date=10 August 2023 |access-date=19 August 2023 |work=N2YO.com}}

}}

SBUDNIC was a 3U (one unit) CubeSat designed and built by an interdisciplinary group of undergraduate and graduate students at Brown University and the 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.{{cite news |last1=Engineering Department Press |first1=Brown University |title=CNR and Brown University School of Engineering announce the launch of a satellite |url=https://engineering.brown.edu/news/2022-05-16/sbudnic-satellite-launch |work=Engineering {{!}} Brown University |language=en}}{{cite news |last1=Russo |first1=Amy |title=Fashioned from AA batteries: Brown students launch satellite on Elon Musk's rocket |url=https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2022/06/23/elon-musk-rocket-sbudnic-satellite-brown-university-students-onboard/7650738001/ |work=The Providence Journal}}{{cite web |title=SBUDNIC |url=https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/sbudnic.htm |website=Gunter's Space Page |language=en}}

The project was financed by Brown's Undergraduate Finance Board, the National Research Council of Italy, and Rhode Island's NASA Space Grant Consortium.{{cite web |url=http://sbudnic.space|title=SBUDNIC}} The satellite was deployed from D-Orbit's ION Satellite Carrier on the SpaceX Falcon 9 Transporter 5 mission.{{cite web |url=https://www.nanosats.eu/sat/sbudnic|title=SBUDNIC|website=Nanosats Database}}

The satellite decayed from orbit on 10 August 2023.

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