The T-LogoQube Satellite mission provides attitude determination and control in a low-cost small platform for performing experiments in space. This platform design is ideal for pointing or scanning the sky.

This allows for controlled observations of the earth and space via a camera or detector system. Future missions will incorporate x-ray/gamma ray detectors for use in studying specific sources of gamma ray bursts in addition to studying the cosmic x-ray background. The ability to point to cosmic gamma ray sources is required in order to study the spectral composition within the short lifetime of low-earth orbiting femto-satellites.

Magnetic coils to induce a orthogonal magnetic field vectors used to control the satellite's coordinate plane. The control system for the coils drives a field normal to the earth's magnetic field.

Sensors: The satellite has a magnetic sensor for attitude determination and two torque coils for attitude control. Additional attitude determination sensing data is provided by the voltage output of the four solar panels on each of the sides of the satellite.

T-LogoQube flight software is written in the language microLogo, allowing commands to be created, up-linked and executed in real time, making this satellite the ideal platform for experimental space science. Logo is a member of a class of languages that have extensible dictionaries of words, similar to Forth. Developing a flight environment entails the creation of new “words” that define how to control the functions of the system. The entire Logo development system is a few tens of Megabytes. The compiled flight environment for T-LogoQube is less than ten kilobytes, allowing the satellite to be completely reprogrammed over the radio. The flexibility and compactness of Logo is well suited for a CubeSat or PocketQube environment.