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.

19 January 2010

Commissioning timeline

There remains just under two months available to complete the outstanding commissioning activities.  Thereafter the plan is to transfer operations of the satellite to the Satellite Application Center (SAC) at Hartebeeshoek (Pretoria).

The following is a list of the main outstanding commissioning activities to complete:
  • Star camera
  • Propulsion system
  • GPS
  • Resistive magnetometer
  • Experimental payloads
  • Viewfinder functionality
The graph below shows the summarized timeline since launch:


Posted by Sunspace Administrator at 1/19/2010 08:45:00 AM

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Current Keplerian Elements

Last Update: 1 Febr 2010
Element set: 404

Sumbandila
1 35870U 09049F   10032.48635300  .00000433  00000-0  21444-4 0  4040
2 35870 097.3525 084.8560 0011505 166.1189 300.7196 15.22856092 20818