Every stopto March.
Where the build is today, what comes next and when your batch ships. We update this page on the first of every month.
The list opened at 09:00 on 15 September and passed 1,000 people in eleven days. Your number is fixed when you join, and every friend who joins with your link moves you up 50 places.
Batch 1 shipson the equinox.
The first 1,000 Skysets leave Bristol on 21 March 2027. The board runs to the second, and so do we.
What happens at T-0
- 01 · 14:00 GMT
Batch 1 opens
Orders open to the list in number order, starting at #1. You get an email with your own checkout link.
- 02 · Next 72 hours
Confirm your set
You have 72 hours to confirm and pay the $249 founder price. Unclaimed sets pass to the next number.
- 03 · Then
Dispatch starts
Sets leave Bristol in number order, with tracking by email. Free shipping to the UK, EU, US and Canada.
Dispatches from
the studio.
Short updates · newest first
Tooling
First steel for the shell moulds
Two moulds, front and back, cut in P20 steel. Samples in six weeks.
Launch
The launch list is open
1,000 sets in Batch 1. No deposit. Every friend moves you up 50 places.
Hardware
Radio board revision C
Better reception on 137 MHz: weather pictures now come through from 15 degrees up.
Hardware
Battery life, measured
18 hours with the tube on for four hours a night. A full charge takes two hours on USB-C.
Software
Aurora alerts added
The set now watches the Kp index and rings when aurora may be visible from your latitude.
Software
Prototype 04 rings on time
Chime timing fixed: within 3 seconds of the predicted rise on 40 passes in a row.
Beta
Beta testers wanted
40 sets go to amateur astronomers in December. Applications open to the launch list.
Build log
Prototype 01 in cardboard
An oscilloscope tube, a radio board and a cardboard shell. It showed one satellite, badly.
Launch list
Be there
at T-0.
Batch 1 ships on 21 March 2027. Join today and you are #1,284; every friend who joins with your link moves you up 50 places.
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