CUBESAT ASSEMBLY: ORCASat Final Assembly Time-Lapse

This is a time-lapse showing the final assembly process for ORCASat: actually putting all the components and subsystems together to form the flight satellite. The assembly, integration, and testing phase of the project started in spring 2021 after completing the Critical Design Review with the Canadian Space Agency. Months of assembling and testing the subsystems and satellite components are not shown in this video, only the final 3 days of actually putting the satellite together. Huge thank-you to Tristan, who sacrificed many evenings and weekends to get everything ready for assembly. Tristan performed almost the entire assembly procedure himself, with Alex helping a little where he could. The assembly procedure is extremely sequential, almost nothing can be done in parallel and each component requires other components to complete testing. Enjoy the video and hopefully you can learn something about CubeSat assembly!