SakhaCube-Cholbon Spacecraft

SakhaCube-Cholbon
SakhaCube-Cholbon
Name SAKHACUBE-CHOLBON
Type CubeSat
Units or mass 1U
Status Operational? (Too early to tell, last checked 2025-12-28)
Launched 2025-12-28
NORAD ID ?
Deployer 12U Deployer [Aerospace Capital]
Launcher Sojuz
Entity name Sakha Science Academy
Institution Non-profit
Entity Academic / Education
Headquarters Russia
Manufacturer AIVT by Sputnix
Partners YKSA LLC
Oneliner

YKSA LLC payload with 12 Arduino-compatible microcontrollers and a set of sensors to study the environment.

Description

SAKHACUBE-CHOLBON is a small spacecraft developed and built as part of a joint project with the Sakha Science Academy to launch the first Sakha satellite. The spacecraft purpose is to perform educational and scientific research tasks, as well as to test the ground support infrastructure.

The spacecraft carries a YKSA LLC payload with 12 Arduino-compatible microcontrollers and a set of sensors to study the environment. School students of the Sakha Republic will be able to upload programs to the spacecraft and conduct their own research.

The spacecraft also performs an amateur radio mission. Telemetry and images from the onboard camera, SSTV postcards, audio messages, and other data will be transmitted. Communications are performed in the 437-439 MHz amateur radio band.

The project is supported by the Trust Fund of Future Generations in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).

Spacecraft is operated via ground stations of the YKSA GSN service. Communications are performed at 437.350 MHz.

Notes
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On the same launch

Last modified: 2026-01-04

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