CubeSTEM MissionLab

Learn space engineering by running missions.

Give your students a spacecraft mission.

Students solve a spacecraft problem, test an idea, run the mission and choose a solution from the results. It works in a browser, with no account or hardware.

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How a mission runs

Five steps, every time.

  1. 01LearnUnderstand the mission.
  2. 02SimulateTest your ideas.
  3. 03OperateRun the spacecraft mission.
  4. 04AnalyseUse telemetry, images and evidence.
  5. 05ValidateFor selected missions, compare your result with supervised real training hardware.Optional. Teacher and operator supervised. Physical acceptance is still commissioning work.

Missions to try

Pick a problem and solve it.

Stop the spin

Your spacecraft is tumbling. Stabilise it.

Grades 6–12 · University

Survive the shadow

Keep the spacecraft alive through eclipse.

Grades 6–12 · University

Trust the telemetry

Can you trust what the spacecraft is telling you?

Grades 6–12 · University

Find the failure

The payload worked. Why did almost no data arrive?

Grades 6–12 · University

Get the picture home

A sharper camera takes better pictures. Does it get more of them home?

Grades 6–12 · University

Thirteen runnable missions. One spacecraft. No student account and no hardware required.

One product

MissionLab is the product a school buys: missions, teacher guidance, evidence and progression. Everything else is part of it.

Real engineering

Students work on the same spacecraft model a university would use, with the depth turned to their level.

No hardware needed

Every mission can be completed on an ordinary computer. Physical experimentation stays optional and supervised.

What is included

13 runnable missions

Students can run thirteen software missions today, each with a problem, guided investigation and evidence-based decision. They remain pilot lessons pending educator review.

One spacecraft underneath

The same spacecraft supports school and university journeys, with language and challenge adjusted to the learner's level.

Start without an account

Learners can run missions as guests. Sign-in is reserved for institutional evidence workflows.

Guidance for the teacher

Each mission arrives with timing, prompts, common misconceptions, expected evidence and a reflection plan.

Work stays with the learner

Guest mission progress stays on the learner's device. MissionLab does not turn local practice into an official grade or verified award.

Optional supervised hardware

After a software mission, selected activities can extend to a supervised KidSAT experiment. It remains training evidence, not flight qualification.

Why schools choose it

A clear space-engineering offer for your school

Ready, repeatable missions for teachers

Progression from Grade 6 to university

Every mission works on ordinary computers

Private learner work by default

Optional Challenge and supervised hardware

What students learn

Frame a spacecraft mission objective and success criterion

Predict before operating a model

Distinguish simulated, derived, reference and measured evidence

Compare bounded configurations and runs

Make an engineering decision from selected evidence

State a limitation and reflect on what should be tested next

Learning outcomes by area

Systems Thinking

Connect mission goals, spacecraft behaviour, constraints, and decisions.

Measurement & Data

Read results, compare evidence and explain what the data supports.

Physics & Mathematics

Use quantitative evidence appropriate to the selected academic depth.

Modelling & Control

Change bounded inputs and explain what caused the modeled response.

Verification & Validation

Judge whether the evidence is strong enough for the conclusion.

Technical Communication

Make a decision, cite evidence, state a limitation, and reflect on the next test.

Software first, by design.

A school can start with ordinary browsers and a teacher-guided mission. Accounts, paid hardware and official competition attempts are not prerequisites for learning or for completing local practice.

A mission your teachers can run again and again.

Every mission follows the same shape, so the second is easier to teach than the first. The language and challenge deepen from Grade 6 to university while the spacecraft stays consistent.

Built for a real classroom session

The two recommended Grade 7 starting missions are MLX-15 and Orbit–Pass–Link. They are starting points, not the only runnable missions; teachers can choose from all thirteen based on supported level and learning goal.

  1. Mission — role, objective, and success criterion

  2. Preparation — diagnostic, theory, and prediction

  3. Readiness — local formative confirmation

  4. Operate — bounded configuration and run

  5. Evidence — provenance, decision, limitation, assessment

  6. Complete and Recognition — reflection and local record

Ready missions. Clear lessons. Real engineering.

Teachers brief the role and objective, guide preparation, confirm local readiness, facilitate the run, review evidence and reflection, and explain the difference between local practice and verified recognition. Prepare once, then reuse the shape.

Start with one mission.

Explore all thirteen missions or open the teacher delivery guide.

MissionLab produces simulated and derived software evidence. Local readiness is not Challenge qualification, local completion is not a verified Mission Pass, and optional supervised hardware is not flight qualification.

Contact: info@cubestem.com