NyxSat Spacecraft - Nanosats Database

Name	NyxSat
Spacecraft type	CubeSat
Units or mass	3U
Status	not launched, expected in 2027
Launcher	not launched
Organisation	Sapienza University of Rome
Institution	University
Entity	Academic / Education
Country	Italy
Partners	Fuerza Aérea de Chile (FACH) Scuola di Ingegneria Aerospaziale (SIA), Chilean Air Force (FACH)
Oneliner	Educational purposes and amateur radio services.
Description	The project is a collaboration aimed at teaching Chilean engineers, technicians and students how to build, integrate, and operate a satellite, covering the entire mission life cycle. The satellite provides two main services to the amateur community: a standard UHF digital repeater with "store-and-forward" capability. It will store messages from radio amateurs and redistribute them within the periodic beacon (one message per beacon). In addition, it will carry an innovative LoRa Digipeater to allow the ham community to test long-range, low-power links via satellite. This protocol is relatively new in the amateur satellite service and will provide a modern platform for experimentation. At the same time the satellite will carry two scientific experimental payloads: an optical payload that will monitor light pollution over Chile, specifically near astronomical observatories, and a new deployable solar array and EPS, developed by the University, that will be validated in orbit. Being the main scope of the mission educational, all communications are non-encrypted and public, specifically UHF will be used for TM/TC including also the LoRa segment. In addition, S-Band will be used for images downlink.
Sources	[1] [2]
Keywords	LoRa

Last modified: 2026-07-31