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SumbandilaSat (formerly ZASAT-002, AMSAT designation SO-67), is a South African micro earth observation satellite, launched 2009-09-17 on a Soyuz-2 launch vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The first part of the name, Sumbandila, is from the Venda language and means "lead the way". 
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SA satellite broadcasts first images

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
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South Africa's Sumbandila microsatellite has been in orbit for some seven weeks now.
During its first month in orbit, the spacecraft, whose name means "lead the way" in the Venda language, completed 457 orbits, amounting to a total distance of 0,1316 astronomical units (AU - an AU is the average distance from the Earth to the Sun, which is 149 597 870 km or 8,3 light minutes) or roughly 150 000 km.

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Soyuz 2.1b Launch
Soyuz 2.1b Launch
Soyuz 2.1b Launches METEOR M1 & other small payloads



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South Africa's first government-owned satellite was successfully launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Thursday at 5.55pm South African time, after two delays earlier in the week due to bad weather and a technical glitch.
The 81kg micro-satellite called SumbandilaSat, which means "to lead the way" in Venda, piggybacked on a Russian Soyuz rocket. (The rocket was blast off by Russian space agency Roscosmos to launch a Russian weather satellite called Meteor.)

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Satellite launched successfully after delay
The SumbandilaSat was "alive and well and speaking to us" after it finally took off into space when the Soyuz rocket launched on Thursday night amid much excitement and anticipation.
Stellenbosch University's Engineering faculty's Herman Steyn said he was thrilled.

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Reports from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan indicate that everything is looking good for the launch, Thursday evening, of the Russian Soyuz-2 rocket which will carry South Africas Sumbandila microsatellite (SumbandilaSat) into space. The launch is scheduled for 1755 South African time.
The primary payload on the rocket is a Russian Meteor M weather satellite, the first of a new generation of Russian meteorological satellites, equipped with new instruments. In addition to the Meteor M and SunbandilaSat, the rocket is carrying five other microsatellites.

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Ed ~ Launch was successful, and on schedule.

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Spokesperson Lunga Ngqengelele said in a statement that South Africa had just been informed that the launch of the SumbandilaSat, the country's low-Earth orbiting satellite, had been postponed by 24 hours.
The launch was expected to take place in Kazakhstan on Tuesday evening, and would now occur on Wednesday at 5.55pm due to a technical error.
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The launch of South Africa's and southern Africa's first government-owned satellite from the central Asian republic of Kazakhstan was delayed by a day because of a technical error, the government in Pretoria said Tuesday.
A Russian Soyuz rocket had been scheduled to blast off at 20:55:07 Tuesday from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan with both South Africa's 26-million-rand (3.5 million dollar) SumbandilaSat and Russian weather satellite Meteor.

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SA is expected to launch its first space satellite later today from Kazakhstan - almost three years later than first planned.
The launch of the SumbandilaSat is significant because it will be the first South African-owned satellite to collect images for the government, with applications ranging from crop monitoring to town planning.
Politics and technical issues repeatedly held back the launch of the SumbandilaSat, which was originally supposed to be launched from a Russian submarine from the Barents Sea in December 2006.

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