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Electromagnetic modelling of a three-panel reflectarray antenna on a CubeSat, performed using the software tool QUPES, recently commercialized by the TICRA company in Denmark. QUPES is a dedicated electromagnetic software tool for the analysis and design of quasi-periodic surfaces such as reflectarrays, frequency selective surfaces (FSS), transmitarrays, etc. Starting from the definition and design of the unit cell geometry to the optimisation of the entire finite-sized structures, QUPES provides the needed capabilities to design a periodic/quasi-periodic surface in a single tool, thus avoiding the need of using multiple software packages.