# Leostar-500-XO bus
*bus . products*

Airbus Defence and Space small Earth-observation satellite platform reported for KazEOSat-1.

## Specifications
- **product status**: operational
- **deployment context**: orbital
- **manufacturer**: airbus-ds
- **bus**: {"form_factor":"small high-resolution Earth-observation satellite platform","platform_class":"medium"}
- **entity type**: bus
- **last verified date**: 2026-06-26
- **verified by**: community
- **claim status**: unclaimed
- **provider**: airbus-ds
- **attributes**: {"kind":"bus","product_status":"operational","deployment_context":"orbital","manufacturer":"airbus-ds","description":"Airbus Defence and Space small Earth-observation satellite platform reported for KazEOSat-1.","bus":"{\"form_factor\":\"small high-resolution Earth-observation satellite platform\",\"platform_class\":\"medium\"}"}
- **relevance**: in-scope

## Editorial
Leostar-500-XO is the platform basis for KazEOSat-1, also known as DZZ-HR.[^wiki-kazeosat-1-ru][^wiki-kazeosat-1-de] Airbus Defence and Space, formerly Astrium, manufactured the platform for this small high-resolution Earth-observation satellite configuration.[^wiki-kazeosat-1-ru][^wiki-kazeosat-1-de] The bus is classified as a medium platform using the about 830 kg KazEOSat-1 spacecraft mass.[^wiki-kazeosat-1-de] Its deployment context is an orbital Earth-observation satellite platform tied to the KazEOSat-1 mission configuration.[^wiki-kazeosat-1-ru][^wiki-kazeosat-1-de]

## Compositional position
- kazeosat-1 (missions) --[mission_buses]--> Leostar-500-XO bus

## Sources
- [wiki-kazeosat-1-ru] | KazEOSat-1, Russian Wikipedia | https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/KazEOSat-1 | tier=community | accessed=2026-06-26
  Lower-tier source used pending recovery of Airbus/Kazakhstan archived technical page.
- [wiki-kazeosat-1-de] | KazEOSat-1, German Wikipedia | https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/KazEOSat-1 | tier=community | accessed=2026-06-26
  Cross-check for reported mass and Airbus platform attribution.

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