diff --git a/tools/mktools b/tools/mktools
index f00594f..ce5c344 100755
--- a/tools/mktools
+++ b/tools/mktools
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ astrobuild "gcc-2"
 
 # Utilities
 astrobuild "busybox"
+astrobuild "bash"
 astrobuild "make"
 astrobuild "perl"
 astrobuild "openssl"
diff --git a/tools/prepchroot b/tools/prepchroot
index 4f411f5..1440661 100755
--- a/tools/prepchroot
+++ b/tools/prepchroot
@@ -25,10 +25,11 @@ mknod -m 666 "$rocket/dev/null" c 1 3 2> /dev/null || true
 
 echo "Creating directories"
 install -dm755 "$rocket/root"
-mkdir -p "$rocket/etc/ssl" "$rocket/bin" "$rocket/usr/pkg"
+mkdir -p "$rocket/etc/ssl" "$rocket/bin" "$rocket/usr/pkg" "$rocket/usr/sat"
 
 echo "Moving temporary things into place"
 ln -sf /tools/bin/sh "$rocket/bin/sh"
+ln -sf /tools/bin/bash "$rocket/bin/bash"
 ln -sf /tools/lib/ssl/certs "$rocket/etc/ssl/certs"
 
 echo "Creating users and groups"
diff --git a/tools/satellites/bash.sat b/tools/satellites/bash.sat
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..337725a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/satellites/bash.sat
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+name=bash
+version=4.3.30
+
+dlextract "http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/$name/$name-$version.tar.gz" \
+          "a27b3ee9be83bd3ba448c0ff52b28447"
+
+cd "$name-$version"
+
+./configure --prefix=/tools --without-bash-malloc
+make; make DESTDIR="$dir_install" install
+
+# vim:set tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 syntax=sh et: