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The Stellenbosch UNiversity SATellite is the first miniaturized satellite designed and manufactured in South 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. Its AMSAT designation was SO-35 (Sunsat Oscar 35). ==Specifications== * Size: 45 x 45 x 60 cm * Mass: 64 kg * 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 * Attitude control: Gravity gradient and magnetorquers, 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 Peninsula Technikon designed and built circuits for both their own piezo film technology and NASA supplied capacitive sensors. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「SUNSAT」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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