Article just published in the Space News "Martin Langer of the Institute of Astronautics at the Technical University of Munich presented an analysis of 178 cubesats launched through mid-2014. Of them, 18 percent were “dead on arrival”; that is, they failed to operate at all after launch. “That’s way too high,” he said.The solution to improving reliability of cubesats, Langer said, was not through the use more traditional mission assurance techniques or higher reliability comp