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What is Kitsat?

Kitsat is a fully functional real satellite for educational use and space hobbyists. It makes space tech fun.
Start your own space programme with Kitsat!

Launch your Kitsat!

Have you bought a Kitsat?
Register here, download your software and see what you can do!

WISA Woodsat

Kitsat goes to space. WISA Woodsat is a Kitsat with a plywood surfaces and substructure with upgraded systems for spaceflight.

Read more about the mission at wisawoodsat.space or check out our more technical blogs at arcticastronautics.fi/blogs.
Photos and renderings ot the satellite are at our Flickr photostream and galleries.

Buy a Kitsat!

Kitsat satellites (consumer, pro and 5 unit packs), accessories and spare parts are available at

What's new?

A new public Gitlab repository

06.03.2023

Public Kitsat Repository on Gitlab 👩‍💻

Robin RD401

03.05.2022

Check out this wooden aircraft

Assembly sequence practised with a prototype

12.04.2022

One year after making our project public: now ready and waiting

Balloon lifting off from Seinäjoki

13.02.2022

Flight report: from Seinäjoki to stratosphere with a camera boom test

Image taken by the satellite camera during the last stratospheric flight in last summer.

08.02.2022

Another cruicial test ahead: balloon flight from Seinäjoki

Happy Holidays

23.12.2021

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