›SA AMSAT SPACE SYMPOSIUM 2010
SA AMSAT is a specialist organisation that focuses on amateur satellites and weak signal communication.
The symposium has the following talks:
08:00 Registration
09:00 Space Symposium
16:30 SA AMSAT Annual General Meeting
Programme Highlights
Opening Address
Professor Fambirai Takawira Telkom Professor of Digital Communications / Dean of Engineering
Keynote address
Dr Phil Mjwara, Director General Department of Science and Technology
Lessons learnt from SumbandilaSat (Oscar-67) commissioning, what can go wrong and how to recover.
K. F Mathapo SunSpace & Information Systems (Ltd)
The String Vibrator Experiment (SVE), an Experimental Payload on SumbandilaSat
Mark Gordon Eskom
VLF Experiment on SumbandilaSat
Andrew Collier, Department of Physics, University of KwaZulu-Natal
The Durban University of Technology Indlebe Radio Telescope
Stuart Macpherson Durban University of Technology
A new generation of South African student satellites
D.F. Visser, French South African Institute of Technology Cape Peninsula University of Technology
AfriSpace: Thinking local. Acting orbital
S. Bradford Inggs, Founder of AfriSpace
Lalea - a around the world balloon project
John Willescroft ZS6EF
Building an SA AMSAT CubeSat
Hans van de Groenendaal ZS6AKV
Open forum chaired by David Long ZS5FR
SA AMSAT President
SA AMSAT is affiliated to the South African Radio League, the national society for Amateur radio in South Africa. It also has strong links with other AMSAT organisations worldwide.
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