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Send Your Name Into Space on Ioffe-1
Date : 22 / 09 / 2026
Author : AMSAT
Fancy getting your name into orbit without having to endure astronaut training, rocket food or the rather inconvenient business of actually leaving Earth?
The latest AMSAT News Service reports that the “Send Your Name into Space” campaign is now open for the forthcoming Ioffe-1 scientific and educational nanosatellite, with registrations closing on 15 October 2026. Participants can submit a name, photograph or drawing, which will be stored on a physical digital storage device and carried aboard Ioffe-1 when it heads into orbit.
Ioffe-1 is being developed by Geoscan and the ANO Space Education Development organisation as part of the Space-π program. The satellite is expected to launch during the northern hemisphere winter of 2026–27 and carries a high-resolution camera together with a scintillation gamma-ray detector developed with the Ioffe Institute. Once in orbit, it is expected to join the Supernova Hunters scientific satellite constellation.
And There's an Amateur Radio Connection
This is where the project becomes particularly interesting for radio amateurs. Mission Control specialists will select the 100 best hand-drawn submissions, which are planned to be transmitted back to Earth via amateur radio after launch. Your artwork therefore has the possibility of making the round trip: uploaded from Earth, carried physically into space, and then transmitted back down by radio.
There is already a successful precedent. The 2025 campaign associated with 239Alferov attracted 7,787 names and more than 3,500 images from 117 countries. Sixty-seven selected drawings were loaded for transmission in the amateur radio band. Geoscan records the 239Alferov transmissions on 436.270 MHz with callsign RS61S.
The closing date for Ioffe-1 submissions is 15 October 2026, so there is still time to put your name, photograph or artwork aboard. Humanity has spent thousands of years trying to leave its mark on the universe.
This story is based on information published by the AMSAT News Service, with thanks to AMSAT and Space-π for the original information.
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