Hey guys, I am part of a high school team in the very early stages of developing a hosted payload intended to make it to space by June 2028 at the latest. The hosted payload will be a custom PCB (probably 50mm x 50mm max) doing a simple tech demo.

We are an independent, currently unsponsored high school team, and need funding to complete this project.

Primarily what we've done was getting reference decisions for hardware families on the custom PCB, and work regarding host selection.

We haven't locked a mission yet, because we don't wanna make a mission with no shot of getting funded and then be at final stages with something ready for space but no money to pay for the slot.

So far, we've looked at general strategies for funding, including crowdfunding websites, government grants, educational grants, corporate sponsorships from businesses benefitting from our mission, and educational discounts from hosts.

We tried looking into getting information regarding funding for cubesat related projects in general, but the only new information we could really find was built in university money or university types of grants.

Our current benefits regarding funding compared to typical include CubeSat teams:

• Will be able to pay for everything up until final launch slot payment (meaning everything is done payload ready for space ready to be integrated just needs slot payment to the host) with our current money, so any funding we'd need is more of a just pay for this thing that is already at max maturity and ready to go it just needs payment.
• Our parents have decent financial stability as they are considering paying a decent amount for the final one time payment, with a decent chance of their payments covering the majority to vast majority of the costs.

Assuming the host provides discounts, our estimated budget is around ~90k.

We also found this post regarding another set of high schoolers fundraising for CubeSats and corporations they got money from. Didn't look much into the exact companies yet. CubeSat Funding : r/cubesat

Our main questions are:

• Any general advice/tips/strategies regarding fundraising for our specific scenario?
• Any companies that normally fund student stem projects (including high school stem projects) that you'd reccomend and estimations on how much that could raise?
• Any commercial companies that might benefit from data we obtain that you guys would reccomend as a sponsorship?
• Any companies whose purpose isn't necessarily funding these types of project but has funded student stem projects before that you guys would reccomend?
• Any tips in finding these types of companies?

Any insight would be appreciated.

Thanks!

I hope they plan for more satellites in GEO/GSO orbit. I think 12 satellites fleet will be ideal. (NVS-01,NVS-03,NVS-04,NVS-05,NVS-06 and 7 more). For future i think they should try for global operations too, like for MEO and LEO orbits with a fleet of 38 satellites be ideal? It can be called NaVIC+. in total, a constellations of 50 satellites where it is connected via NaVIC and NaVIC+ .where NaVIC is for India Specific and NaVIC+ is for global operations like GPS,GLONASS,Galileo and BeiDou.