„Max Valier Sat“ (N2YO 42778) is an amateur satellite built in cooperation by:
„Max Valier“ High School in Bolzano/Bozen (Italy)
OHB System AG from Bremen (Germany)
Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics from Garching (Germany)
Its main payload is an X-Ray telescope devised and made by MPE. Data generated by this detector will be transmitted, together with housekeeping data, over an amateur radio link with frequency 145.860 MHz.
A second payload is an amateur radio beacon transmitting a message in Continuous Wave. The beacon’s frequency is 145.960 MHz.