---
title: "NASA Skunkworks Team Wants To Deliver A 6U Cubesat"
description: "A \"skunkworks\" team has designed a new-fangled, first-ever 6U CubeSat and plans to complete its construction and integration by February 2015 for a possible deployment from the ISS"
date: "2014-11-19"
modified: "2014-11-19"
authors:
  - name: "Amber Raynolds"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/amber24"
url: "https://futurism.com/nasa-skunkworks-team-wants-deliver-6u-cubesat"
categories:
  - "NASA"
  - "Space"
---

# NASA Skunkworks Team Wants To Deliver A 6U Cubesat

![](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/skunkword.jpg>)

- The CubeSat, known as Dellingr, will carry three heliophysics-related payloads.
- It doubles the payload capability of the ubiquitous and proven three-unit, or 3U, CubeSat pioneered by the California Polytechnic Institute in 1999
- Once deployed from the ISS, its mission will last up to six months