The very dramatic reduction on the size of electronics and their concurrent increase incomplexity and capability are making possible multi-function satellites in very smallvolumes. The CubeSat program was born as this complex electronic environment wasbirthing. CubeSat is a small, 10cm cube 1/12 the volume of the previous “small”AMSAT Microsat program of 1990. Owing to the small size and mass it has become financiallypossible to launch these satellites on small budgets. AMSAT is now in the processof exploring this field and size of satellites as finding launches for our previous designshas become nearly impossible.While the size of these satellites has been reduced, the complexity of the thermal designand the supporting analyses has not really diminished at all. This paper will documentthe thermal design and analyses of the AMSAT Fox-1 program. This paper is an updateof the one presented last year at the Space Symposium.
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