Amateur Radio Satellite Sumbandila 'close to launch'

According the Russian Federation ARMS-TASS news agency the South African Amateur Radio satellite Sumbandila could be launched this year.

The article quotes the head of the Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos) Anatoly Perminov as saying that Sumbandila: "is likely to be launched into orbit as the associated pressures along with a Russian spacecraft Meteor-M"
(Google translation)

Meteor-M is currently scheduled for launch by the end of 2008.

Sumbandila to launch with Meteor-M (Google Translation) http://tinyurl.com/5ltalr

ARMS-TASS
http://arms-tass.su/

SumbandilaSat launch delayed indefinately http://www.southgatearc.org/news/february2008/
sumbandilasat_launch_delayed.htm

SumbandilaSat - Engineering News article http://www.southgatearc.org/news/may2008/
sumbandilasat.htm