SunSpace was established in 2000 as a spin-off from Stellenbosch University following the successful launch of SUNSAT by NASA with a Delta-II launch vehicle. During the past decade SunSpace has developed and delivered numerous satellite components, subsystems and two flight model satellite, now operational in space. This blog documents the mission of Sumbandila (funded by the DST), launched on a Soyuz-2.1b on 17 September 2009. SunSpace places a high premium on a strong partnership with the South African Government for supplying the ongoing satellite needs of our government.

13 October 2009

First video received from the satellite

We are blessed - have received the first real-time video images from the satellite during the two morning passes!  The signal was simultaneously received by the ground station at Stellenbosch University and the one at SAC (Hartebeeshoek) - the one in Stellenbosch with a 4.2m dish and the one at SAC with a 10m dish.  The signal-to-noise ratio of the latter was obviously much better. 

You can see an edited version of the video below, captured in Stellenbosch.  At the time the satellite was moving over the North-Western corner of Namibia in a South-Western direction.  In the second half of the video you will notice the top part of a VHF antenna visible at the top of the frame.
Posted by Sunspace Administrator at 10/13/2009 04:55:00 PM

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Current Keplerian Elements

Last Update: 1 Febr 2010
Element set: 404

Sumbandila
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2 35870 097.3525 084.8560 0011505 166.1189 300.7196 15.22856092 20818