CubeSat's and other commercial, off-the-shelf hardware has massively reduced the time and expense required to get to space. However, many projects get caught between long hardware lead times and hard launch dates and underestimate the time that is needed to write high-quality space-grade software.
You've gotta account for enough time between when the hardware comes in ... to develop a software and [make sure that] the software is good and it's stable and you've tested it thoroughly
what we've seen in a lot of ... CubeSat startups is that they don't allot enough time for software Marshall Culpepper Founder, Kubos corporation (source)
We are a community that aims to develop and maintain high-quality, modular, open-source software to help accelerate the software development timeline and help missions successfully meet their launch deadlines.
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