# NanoDragon 3U CubeSat bus
*bus . products*

Mission-specific 3U CubeSat platform used by NanoDragon, carrying Meisei Electric's advanced CubeSat OBC demonstration hardware.

## Specifications
- **product status**: retired
- **deployment context**: orbital
- **manufacturer**: vnsc
- **bus**: {"form_factor":"3U CubeSat","platform_class":"nano","cubesat_units":"3U"}
- **entity type**: bus
- **last verified date**: 2026-06-26
- **verified by**: agency-doc
- **claim status**: agency-sourced
- **provider**: vnsc
- **attributes**: {"kind":"bus","product_status":"retired","deployment_context":"orbital","manufacturer":"vnsc","description":"Mission-specific 3U CubeSat platform used by NanoDragon, carrying Meisei Electric's advanced CubeSat OBC demonstration hardware.","bus":"{\"form_factor\":\"3U CubeSat\",\"platform_class\":\"nano\",\"cubesat_units\":\"3U\"}"}
- **relevance**: in-scope

## Editorial
NanoDragon 3U CubeSat bus is a mission-specific 3U CubeSat platform for the NanoDragon spacecraft. NanoDragon belongs to the Innovative Satellite Technology Demonstration-2 CubeSat set and carried the Meisei Electric advanced CubeSat OBC demonstration theme.[^jaxa-kakushin-2] The 3U CubeSat basis places this bus in the nano platform class.[^jaxa-kakushin-2] Payload capacity, power, and pointing figures remain unspecified.

## Compositional position
- nanodragon (missions) --[mission_buses]--> NanoDragon 3U CubeSat bus

## Sources
- [jaxa-kakushin-2] | Innovative Satellite Technology Demonstration-2, JAXA Research and Development Directorate | https://www.kenkai.jaxa.jp/kakushin/kakushin02.html | tier=agency-doc | accessed=2026-06-26

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