Armath engineers design CubeSat

Engineers at the Armath Engineering Laboratories in Yerevan have designed a CubeSat following the successful ARMSAT-1 and Hayasat-1 missions in 2022 and 2023 respectively.

Although the design is complete, the expediency and potential applications of the CubeSat are yet to be determined before moving forward with development, according to a senior Armath executive.

Maya Shahumyan, the Program Director at Armath, told Armenpress that the project can be highly ambitious if implemented.

“A CubeSat — a nanosatellite — has been designed in one of Yerevan’s workshops,” she said. “This is one of the space-related projects we want to work on: to facilitate communication between interested organizations or companies and the specialists, so that through discussions it becomes clear which direction the work should continue. I think it will take a few months to clarify all of this,” Shahumyan added.

She noted that discussions with experts will ultimately determine whether it is expedient to proceed with development.

ArmSat-1, Armenia’s first satellite, was launched into space by a SpaceX rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, U.S., in 2022.
The Earth-observation satellite entered its scheduled deorbit phase on November 8 this year, marking the completion of the project.

Meanwhile, HayaSat-1 — the first Armenian-built satellite, developed by the Bazoomq Space Research Lab jointly with the Center for Scientific Innovation and Education (CSIE) — was launched into orbit in December 2023 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The mission was completed earlier in 2025. 

Earlier in 2022, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced that Armenia plans to launch more satellites into orbit.