Veronika

Two cameras and will operate in the amateur radio band, allowing our client to have a personal connection with space exploration. The first-ever pink satellite. 

Our client, Boris Procik, a financier from Slovakia asked Spacemanic to build and launch a 1U nanosatellite - for a unique and personal mission.

Our client has decided to make this nanosatellite the first "family satellite" named after his daughter, Veronika. The 1U nanosatellite will have two cameras and will operate in the amateur radio band, allowing our client to have a personal connection with space exploration.

Another curious fact about this mission will be its color - the first-ever pink satellite.

Veronika is a 1U CubeSat mission to support the Slovak and international amateur radio community with various HAM services and activities.

• The satellite also has an education and outreach mission. It is planned to involve Slovak grammar and high schools and to transmit special CW and AX.25 messages on several special occasions. Czech partners are also involved, namely PLANETUM - Prague Observatory and Planetarium, which will also use the satellite for educational purposes.
• The satellite will be equipped with a 24/7 digipeater on two different bands, and experimental SSDV transmissions are also planned. From a platform perspective, the satellite will be equipped with a novel ADCS subsystem, including electromagnetic actuators and a GNSS receiver. This will also help to identify the satellite during the first days and weeks.
• The satellite will communicate on the amateur VHF and UHF bands, using Spacemanic's well-known Murgas transceivers (BDSat-1, BDSat-2, Planetum-1 Veronika satellite is designed for HAM radio activities. Main purpose is to provide services for radio amateurs worldwide and also for students of grammar schools, high schools and technical universities to get hands-on experience with satellite communication and get radioamateur licences.
• One of the project goals is to popularize HAM activities across the common population, students, and children in Slovakia.
• Veronika will provide these HAM services:
  • AX.25 telemetry
  • CW beacon
  • Digipeater
  • Anniversary/special occasions AX.25 & CW messages for community engagement
  • Experimental SSDV transmissions
  • SATNOGS integration, decoder, dashboard Proposing UHF downlinks for telemetry using 9k6 G3RUH AX.25 and a CW beacon.