Small satellite platforms such as CubeSats are invaluable platforms for exploring space for research, military, and civilian purposes. Their small size, reduced cost, load, complexity, and flexibility allow various kinds of missions previously impossible. In support of its scientific missions, Politecnico di Torino’s CubeSatTeam created the CubeSat Control Centre (C3) with extremely clear and well defined mission requirements: to build a ground station at the Politecnico di Torino under 30k€ capable of tracking and communicating with VHF/UHF/S/X-band low-Earth orbit CubeSats to be operated by students and non-professionals in pursuit of CubeSatTeam’s missions with a certain level of autonomy. This report details the design and verification of C3’s CCSDS-compliant softwaredefined ground station.