Good Ancestor Kilakila Spacecraft

Good Ancestor Kilakila
Good Ancestor Kilakila
Good Ancestor Kilakila
Good Ancestor Kilakila
Satellite name Good Ancestor Kilakila (Emergency Communication Satellite)
Form factor CubeSat
Units or mass 2U
Status Operational? (No clear news found but object identified as of 2025-12-22)
Launched 2025-06-23
NORAD ID 64528
Deployer QuadPack (XL) [ISISpace]
Launcher Falcon 9 (Transporter-14)
Organisation Good Ancestor Foundation
Institution Non-profit
Entity Government (Civil / Military)
Headquarters US
Manufacturer AIVT by Satslice
Operator Satslice
Launch brokerer SEOPS
Oneliner

An emergency satellite to transmit information to regular cell phones on response intervention.

Description

Humanitarian low-cost open source satellite based communication system. In collaboration with Good Ancestors (US), build and launch an emergency satellite to transmit information to regular cell phones on response interventions for a catastrophe that disables comms infrastructure (~$300k). In a scenario such as widespread nuclear EMPs, this technology could be fundamental for distributing information on how to provide basic food and water needs to the population.

Good news, we have already built the first 2u test satellite, and paid for the launch, that came in at about $230k (hardware and launch). Obviously there's a lot of free/unaccounted labor in there, and some choices that we would not make on the production units, which would be more in the $500k range most ideally. These have LoRA radios, SDR, VHF, etc

Sources [1] [2] [3]
Photo sources [1] [2]
On the same launch

Last modified: 2026-01-04

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