SumbandilaSat launch scheduled for Sept 15

The Southern African Amateur Radio Satellite Association (SA AMSAT) reports that South Africa's second Amateur Radio satellite SumbandilaSat is due to launch on September 15

The website reports that the satellite is already in Moscow and on its way to Baikonur where it will be launched on its journey around the earth on a Soyuz rocket.

The Amateur Radio payload comprises a V/U FM voice transponder with an uplink in the 2 metre band and a downlink in the 70cm band. It has a parrot repeater (voice digipeater) and a voice beacon.

The Amateur Radio Payload will be operating in conjunction with the University of Stellenbosch Software Defined Receiver project as it will share the VHF receiver and UHF transmitter used by the SDR project.

The satellite also carries a Very Low Frequency (VLF) radio experiment from the University of KwaZulu-Natal

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University of Stellenbosch
http://www.sun.ac.za/

University of KwaZulu-Natal
http://www.ukzn.ac.za/

SunSpace
http://www.sunspace.co.za/

Southern African Amateur Radio Satellite Association
(SA AMSAT)
http://www.amsatsa.org.za/