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South Africa must not be shy to compete against the best countries in the world, Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor said after seeing the first images from the country's low earth orbit satellite Sumbandila, on Monday

SA satellite broadcasts images


SEE IMAGES HERE
 
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A link to the images would be more welcome than the article I think ;)
 
Would be nice if they shared the images :)
 
Images are R90 each, but there is a satellite rental fee of R147 a month.
 
Actually, that blog (http://sumbandilamission.blogspot.com/) does not have the images mentioned in the article. Nor any other images taken by the main imager. That blog is run by Sunspace, the company that built the satellite and is still commissioning it. They will hand over the running of the satellite to SAC (Satellite Applications Centre - CSIR Hartebeeshoek) in about a month's time. Sunspace is not allowed to post images from the main imager on their blog, because the satellite and the images belong to DST, the client. So we will have to wait for DST to release the images to see them. If that ever happens.

In actually fact, the images downloaded this morning are NOT the first images, as stated by DST. Many other images were downloaded previously. I don't really know why DST had to lie about it. Maybe the minister seems more involved if she is seen to be present when the "first" images are downloaded. Maybe it was a simple misunderstanding. This morning was nothing more than a publicity stunt really, in the mean time the real running of the satellite goes on in the background.
 
SatEngineer knows the feeling of working his arse off on a project, only for the politicians to storm in and make a big show of it! And then they do not have the faintest idea of what it is all about, on top of that ;-)
Such is life. Get used to it.
 
Tshivenda cost, more than R20 million to build and R12m to launch. It was developed by the private enterprise SunSpace, consisting of University of Stellenbosch students and academics.
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They forgot to mention that Malema owns the company that built it :P
 
Oh well, there's always NASA & JPL which are not as backwards when it comes to releasing images for all of humanity.
 
"I'm excited that our nation is in space... We intend to use our minds and our resources to take a leadership position in space.
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hmm what have I missed? We can't even get something as simple as internet access right, now we going to win the space race:confused:
 
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