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Here's a general listing of CubeSat component manufacturers and the components each manufacture.
*'''Pumpkin'''
** Founded by Stanford Professor Andrew Kalman, Pumpkin aims to provide cubesat kits, components, and software.
** Specialties:
*** Salvo Real Time Operating System
*** CubeSatKit and development hardware for a variety of microcontrollers
*** Software for interfacing with a variety of other relevant components, such as radios and EPS systems
*'''ClydeSpace'''
** Particularly in the field of power consumption and generation, ClydeSpace provides a wide array of COTS CubeSat components. This includes premade solar panels, EPS systems, batteries, and deployable solar panels.
*** ClydeSpace also provides a CubeSat onboard computer module, though the flexibility and applications of this system seemed somewhat unclear.
*'''AstroDev'''
** Astronautical Development manufactures and sells CubeSat radio hardware. This includes the Helium and Lithium radios, which have been used on past satellites built by the Stanford Space Systems Development Laboratory.