SUNSAT

South African National Space Agency, Stellenbosch University
February, 1999 to January, 2001

SUNSAT is an advanced microsatellite program, developed by graduate students of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa (Stellenbosch University is located about 50 km east of Cape Town). The overall objective is to demonstrate proven and new technologies in the fields of remote sensing, spacecraft control, the solid Earth sciences, and to provide services (mail box, speech and data relay experiments) to the AMSAT community.

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Also known as :

• missionID 488 (ceos lexicon)
• Mission SUNSAT (ceos lexicon)
• resource SUNSAT (dbpedia lexicon)