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The Stellenbosch UNiversity SATellite is the first miniaturized satellite designed and manufactured in Africa. It was launched aboard a Delta II rocket from the Vandenberg Air Force Base on 23 February 1999. Sunsat was built by post-graduate engineering students at the University of Stellenbosch.
[edit] Specifications
- Size: 45 x 45 x 60 cm
- Mass: 64 k
- Launcher: Delta II rocket, Mission P-91
- Program size: US $5M (Approximate)
- Lifetime: 4-5 years (NiCad Battery pack life)
- Main payloads:
- Amateur radio communications
- Data interchange
- Stereo multispectral imager
- Altitude control: Gravity gradient and magnetorque, reaction wheels when imaging
- Accuracy: 3 mrad pitch/roll, 6 mrad yaw
- 2 Micro Particle Impact Detectors were included as part of experiments conducted in orbit
- A team (Zaahied Cassim and Rashid Mohamed) from Pentech Designed and Built circuits for both its own and NASA supplied sensors
[edit] Pushboom imager
- Ground pixel size: 15 m x 15 m
- Image width: 51.8 km
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