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SA space agency celebrates 24th anniversary of launch of the country’s first satellite
24 Feb 2023 09:05 GMT
… satellites such as the microsatellite SumbandilaSat, CubeSats ZACube-1 and ZACube … February as National Spacefaring Month. (SumbandilaSat was launched on September 17 …
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WATCH: SA’s first agriculture-focused microsatellite launched into orbit
09 Jan 2023 14:11 GMT
… 2009, the department launched the SumbandilaSat, a technology demonstrator, in partnership … with the South African industry. SumbandilaSat was launched from Baikonur, … programme
Nzimande added that the SumbandilaSat initiative also demonstrated South Africa …
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South Africa’s Sumbandila satellite has finally fallen back into the atmosphere
13 Dec 2021 08:35 GMT
… Science and Technology in 2005. (SumbandilaSat, as it was also known … university, following the SunSat project). SumbandilaSat was a technology demonstrator programme …
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South Africa has just deployed its first truly operational satellites
03 Feb 2022 23:31 GMT
… the earlier satellite projects – SunSat, SumbandilaSat and earlier South African CubeSats …
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Plan emerges for renewal of South Africa’s crucial space infrastructure
19 Mar 2021 02:14 GMT
… the small satellites SunSat and SumbandilaSat, both of which have ceased …
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South Africa joined “Satellites improve life” theme in celebration of World Space Week 2020
08 Oct 2020 13:57 GMT
… later in 2006 the 81kg SumbandilaSAT was developed by Sunspace, and …
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Milestone as Kenya to launch satellite
25 Jan 2018 11:30 GMT
… its second satellite known as SumbandilaSat, from Kazakhstan. A year later …
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Apart from Ghana these are other sub-Saharan countries that have satellites in space.
11 Jul 2017 13:30 GMT
… its second satellite known as SumbandilaSat, from Kazakhstan. A year later …
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nSight1 nanosatellite sent into orbit
31 May 2017 10:31 GMT
… late 90s, including SUNSAT (1999), SumbandilaSat (2009) and the Cape Peninsula …
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South Africa’s latest nanosatellite now in orbit
31 May 2017 09:45 GMT
… , following Sunsat (launched in 1999), SumbandilaSat (2009) and Cape Peninsula University …