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Hexstar 1U · CubeSat kit
Built for near space.
A real 1U CubeSat kit for your desk, long-range field tests and stratospheric balloon flights. Flight-style boards, a LoRa radio and a pocket ground station, all in a 10 cm cube.
01 · Open it up
Every part. Yours to see.
Four rails, four skeleton panels, a top plate with the GNSS patch and whip antenna. Everything comes apart with an M3 driver.
02 · Inside
Three boards. One mission.
Radio on top, brain in the middle, power at the bottom. They're joined by a single 40-pin stack bus, exactly like flight hardware.
Layer 01 · Communications
LoRa radio
Sends telemetry to the ground and listens for commands, at 868 MHz and up to +22 dBm.
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Layer 02 · Flight computer
On-board computer
Runs your code, reads every sensor and logs the whole mission to microSD.
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Layer 03 · Power
Power system
Charges, protects and measures every milliwatt the satellite uses.
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Layer 03 · Underside
One cell. Everything.
A single 18650 Li-ion cell under the EPS powers the whole stack, with protection, a fuse and a remove-before-flight key between it and the bus.
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Near space · Stratosphere ready
Ready for the edge of space.
Test it on your rooftop over long-range LoRa, then fly it under a high-altitude balloon into the stratosphere. You'll see the curve of the Earth, a black sky, and live telemetry the whole way up.
StratosphereBalloon-flight ready
Long range868 MHz LoRa link
GNSSLive position track
Stratosphere · 31 km
Balloon burst in…
Up here the air is so thin the balloon has swelled to many times its launch size. Any moment now it pops.
Recovery · Parachute out
Parachute deployed.
The canopy snaps open and slows the fall. The CubeSat keeps sending telemetry and its GNSS position the whole way down, so you can find it.
Descent
Coming home.
Back down through the atmosphere, past the clouds, to where every mission starts.
First production batch
Your mission starts here.
1U10 × 10 × 10 cm
48 MHzCortex-M0+ OBC
868 MHzLoRa · +22 dBm
9-axisIMU + magnetometer
GNSSGPS · BeiDou · PPS
186503.5 Ah Li-ion
Pre-order pricePrice · Mission kit
₹39,000+ GST
Pre-order today for just ₹2,000. Pay the rest before it ships.
The pocket ground station is a USB LoRa receiver with its own 868 MHz antenna. Plug it into any laptop and it catches every packet from your CubeSat, then streams it straight into the Hexstar dashboard. You don't need drivers or an internet connection.
01
Plug in the ground station
USB-C into any Windows, macOS or Linux laptop. It shows up as a serial port.
02
Pull the RBF key
The CubeSat powers up and starts sending telemetry every second over LoRa.
03
Open the dashboard
See attitude, power, GNSS, environment and link quality live, and log every packet.
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Gen 1 and Gen 2 Hexstar CubeSats are in classrooms, university labs, space agencies and companies on six continents. Every kit is built and shipped from Kolkata, India.
80+Countries
6Continents
1Hub · Kolkata
India
USA
Canada
UK
Germany
Netherlands
Switzerland
Italy
Greece
Norway
Saudi Arabia
UAE
Kuwait
Bahrain
Japan
South Korea
Taiwan
Hong Kong
Singapore
Malaysia
Australia
Bangladesh
Nepal
Brazil
Argentina
Chile
Panama
Tanzania
DR Congo
+ many more
Hexstar kits are used by teams at
University of OxfordPhysics Laboratory
AppleUSA
NAVERSouth Korea
MITMassachusetts Institute of Technology
ISROIndian Space Research Organisation
IIT KharagpurIndia
IIT MadrasIndia
EPFL Space CenterSwitzerland
Michigan TechMichigan Technological University
University of AthensGreece
Bahrain Space AgencyBahrain
Paras DefenceIndia
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Just ₹2,000 to book
Reserve any kit today for ₹2,000. We'll ask for the rest only when your kit is ready to ship.
Questions before you order?Bulk and school orders, partnerships or anything technical: we usually reply within 1–2 working days.
₹2,000 booking amount is adjusted against the full price · Estimated shipping Q1 2027 · Shipping and GST are added at checkout · All prices exclude GST · Secure payments: Razorpay (UPI, cards, netbanking) in India, PayPal (cards and PayPal) internationally
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Lighter, lower-cost versions of the Hexstar CubeSat, in stock and ready to ship.
Educational use only. Hexstar CubeSat kits are made for learning and educational experiments. They are not certified or intended for real spaceflight or orbital launch. High-altitude helium balloon launches are entirely at your own risk: Hexstar Universe does not guarantee that the payload will be recovered, or that data will be received throughout any mission. You are responsible for following local aviation and radio rules.
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