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SSPI Timeline: 1999 – Sunsat
February 23, 1999: The launch of the Stellenbosch University Satellite (SUNSAT) added South Africa to the list of satellite nations. This micro-satellite, designed and built by electrical engineering students at the Stellenbosch University in South Africa, was designed for operation in low Earth orbit to provide imaging, worldwide store-and-forward email communications and remote sensing including studies of the Earth’s magnetic field, gravity field, atmosphere, and ionosphere plus intercomparison of GPS and SLR precision orbits
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