XavSat-1 Mission Satellite
Xavier Space Solutions (XavSat)
Ghana's first privately developed PocketQube satellite, flying a quantum temperature-and-pressure profiling payload.
Technical specifications
- Chassis
- PocketQube 1P
- Payload
- Quantum temperature & pressure payload
- Average payload power
- ~1 W
- Attitude control
- Passive bar magnet
- Mass
- <250 g
- Antenna
- Deployable 437 MHz UHF dipole antenna
- Payload data downlink
- 1.2 kb/s (UHF)
About
XavSat-1 is Xavier Space Solutions’ flagship mission and Ghana’s first private PocketQube satellite. Built on a 1P PocketQube chassis, it carries a quantum temperature and pressure profiling payload with passive bar-magnet attitude control, and communicates via a deployable 437 MHz UHF dipole antenna. The mission was presented at IAC 2025 and represents the first flight demonstration of XavSat’s PocketQube bus technology.
Documentation
No public datasheet yet — request the datasheet / ICD from the supplier.
