The teenage students at the Nazarbayev Intellectual School in Astana, Kazakhstan are going to get plenty of lessons through the data they receive from a QUBIK ("Cube-ick") satellite which downlinks telemetry via FSK on 435.240 MHz.

The satellite, NIS-PQ was built for them, with their long-distance participation, by the nonprofit Libre Space Foundation in Athens, Greece which specialises in microsatellites, nanosatellites and picosatellites. The students' tiny satellite was one of eight that was launched in October aboard a SpaceX rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

Seventeen students and some graduates of the school were actively involved in providing input for the creation of the 260-gram satellite. With the encouragement of the Kazakhstan Space Agency, KazCosmos, Libre Space provided the students with a model so they could be thoroughly trained on using the satellite and, based on that model, built the so-called "pocket-class" satellite.

SatNOGS, the Libre Space Foundation's open source satellite tracking network, reported that by the 12th of October, 51 stations had logged a total of more than 100 observations of the tiny student satellite.