22/05/2026
MySat Factory Tour: Part 2 ๐ฐ๏ธ
Earlier we showed the room where we 3D-print plastic parts for MySatKit. Today โ a little more behind the scenes. We will show two more rooms: our storage/assembly room and our soldering room.
In total, we currently have 5 rooms. But if we show everything at once, people may realize we are actually just slowly converting an entire Soviet factory into a space program ๐
Our โspace factoryโ is located inside an old Soviet factory building. Rent here is about $3 per square meter. The building was supposed to be demolished years ago and replaced with something โmodern and shiny,โ but first COVID happened, and then russia decided to make the worst startup pitch in history and invaded Ukraine. So the old factory is still standingโฆ and now space technology is being built inside it.
The building has no central heating, so in winter we locally heat each room separately. Sometimes the soldering room is warmer than the CEOโs office ๐
Because of constant missile attacks, we also regularly have problems with water and electricity. So we store water in large bottles, and we built our own parallel electrical network powered by batteries. It keeps our equipment running even during blackouts. โกThe batteries are located in the 3D printer room โ probably the most cyberpunk room in the entire building Honestly, if someone added neon lights and synthwave music, it could become a sci-fi movie set.
The first room is our MySat component storage and assembly room. Here we assemble mechanical parts, prepare kits, and pack all components into boxes before shipping. This is the place where your MySat begins its journey into spaceโฆ or at least into international postal logistics ๐
This room also contains a small exhibition of our prototypes: stratospheric vehicles, deployers for real CubeSats, and even experimental exoskeletons for space. These exoskeletons do not help astronauts move โ they actually make movement harder, adding resistance so astronauts in microgravity lose less bone and muscle mass. So this may be one of the few exoskeletons in the world officially designed to make life more difficult ๐
We had to renovate this room because all MySat parts were getting covered with dust very quickly. We installed the electrical wiring and lighting ourselves, painted the walls, and added a PVC ceiling so orders would arrive to customers as clean as possible. Space is cool, but nobody likes receiving โlimited edition lunar dustโ inside a package.
The second room is our electronics soldering room. It still has original wooden wall panels that are more than 40 years old. At this point they probably remember the Soviet Union better than most history teachers.
Inside the room there is a Webasto diesel heater and a soldering exhaust system. The room smells slightly like electronics, engineering ambition, and occasionally burned flux.
For electronics assembly we use modern smart soldering irons. They heat up almost instantly, can even run from a power bank, and measure temperature very accurately because the temperature sensor is located directly inside the tip. The soldering tips also require almost no cleaning. And the best part โ the soldering irons contain accelerometers. Almost the same type as inside MySat ๐ฐ๏ธ If the soldering iron does not move for several minutes, it automatically disables heating. So even our soldering irons have their own onboard power-saving system. Honestly, some humans should probably have this feature too.
This is what real space technology manufacturing looks like. Not a sterile sci-fi laboratory, but an old factory, soldering irons, printers, batteries, cold walls, and very stubborn people.
And honestly, we kind of like it ๐
If you have more questions about our production process, we will be happy to answer them.
If you want to see how real satellites are built from scratch and actually learn space engineering hands-on, get your MySat kit today and start building your own mission to orbit: www.mysatkit.com
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