# ZACube-2 3U CubeSat bus
*bus . products*

Candidate stub for the CPUT/F-SATI 3U CubeSat platform flown by ZACube-2.

## Specifications
- **product status**: retired
- **manufacturer**: cput
- **bus**: {"form_factor":"3U CubeSat","platform_class":"nano","cubesat_units":"3U"}
- **deployment context**: orbital
- **entity type**: bus
- **last verified date**: 2026-06-26
- **verified by**: community
- **claim status**: unclaimed
- **provider**: cput
- **attributes**: {"product_status":"retired","manufacturer":"cput","bus":"{\"form_factor\":\"3U CubeSat\",\"platform_class\":\"nano\",\"cubesat_units\":\"3U\"}","kind":"bus","deployment_context":"orbital","description":"Candidate stub for the CPUT/F-SATI 3U CubeSat platform flown by ZACube-2."}
- **relevance**: in-scope

## Editorial
ZACube-2 3U CubeSat bus is the nanosatellite bus flown by ZACube-2 / ZA-004. The spacecraft is a CPUT/F-SATI 3U CubeSat with AIS, software-defined-radio, and imaging payload context.[^wiki-zacube-2][^gunter-zacube-2] The bus is nano-class by the 3U CubeSat form factor and 4 kg launch mass.[^wiki-zacube-2][^gunter-zacube-2] The platform is mission-specific to the ZACube-2 flight instance rather than a separately named commercial bus.[^wiki-zacube-2][^gunter-zacube-2]

## Compositional position
- zacube-2 (missions) --[mission_buses]--> ZACube-2 3U CubeSat bus

## Sources
- [wiki-zacube-2] | ZACube-2 technical summary | https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZACube-2 | tier=community | accessed=2026-06-26
- [gunter-zacube-2] | ZACUBE 2 (ZA 004), Gunter Space Page | https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/zacube-2.htm | tier=third-party | accessed=2026-06-26
  Lower-tier spacecraft catalogue cross-check.

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