Hello Space PocketQubes (Istanbul, Hello Test-1 & 2)

Also known as Istanbul, Hello Test 1, Hello Test 2

Commercial IoT PocketQube series launched in 2023 by Turkish startup Hello Space aboard Falcon 9 Transporter-8 and Transporter-9.

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Commercial PocketQube IoT from Türkiye

Following the university flight heritage of Grizu-263A in January 2022, members of its founding engineering team established the commercial startup Hello Space to build a PocketQube-based narrowband Internet-of-Things (IoT) constellation[1]. Three spacecraft were launched in 2023 within the census window:

SpacecraftSizeLaunch dateLaunch vehicle & deployerMission role
Istanbul1P12 June 2023Falcon 9 Transporter-8 (D-Orbit ION) pathfinder verifying the commercial IoT transceiver chain in Sun-synchronous orbit.
Hello Test-12P11 November 2023Falcon 9 Transporter-9 (D-Orbit ION) bus with increased solar area and battery capacity for multi-pass store-and-forward payload testing.
Hello Test-22P11 November 2023Falcon 9 Transporter-9 (D-Orbit ION)Co-manifested sibling operating in the same Sun-synchronous plane.

Scaling from 1P demonstrator to 2P operational nodes

Like Fossa Systems' transition from the FossaSat-1 to the FossaSat-2E series, Hello Space moved from the Istanbul demonstrator to spacecraft (Hello Test-1 and 2) within five months, doubling the body-mounted solar collection area to support higher transmit duty cycles[1].

References

  1. [1]nadir lab. (2026). PocketQube-class picosatellites: architecture, flight heritage, and a multi-method post-flight analysis of Grizu-263A [Preprint]. nadir lab. Research Monographs (SQ-R-001).Read on nadir lab.

Cite this SatWiki entry

@misc{nadirlab2026hello,
  author       = {{nadir lab.}},
  title        = {{Hello Space PocketQubes (Istanbul, Hello Test-1 \& 2)}},
  year         = {2026},
  month        = oct,
  howpublished = {nadir lab. SatWiki SQ-MS-007 (Rev. 1)},
  url          = {https://nadirlab.space/wiki/hello-space-pocketqubes/}
}