[amsat-bb] Re: [Sumbandila: 286] Temporary suspension of SO-67 service

[Mothibi Ramusi]

Hello Jan,

 

Has there been any test on the telecommunication payload?

 

Regards,

 

From: sumbandila at googlegroups.com [mailto:sumbandila at googlegroups.com]
On Behalf Of Jan-Albert Koekemoer
Sent: 25 January 2010 01:01 PM
To: amsat-bb at amsat.org
Cc: sumbandila at googlegroups.com
Subject: [Sumbandila: 286] Temporary suspension of SO-67 service

 

Hello

 

There is little more than 6 weeks left in which to complete the
outstanding commissioning activities on Sumbandila before operations are
planned to be handed over in middle-March to the Satellite Application
Center, who will then continue to operate the satellite on behalf of the
Department of Science and Technology (DST) - owner of the satellite.

 

Since our progress is currently hampered by the various SA-AMSAT payload
activities, we have unfortunately no choice but to temporarily suspend
this service on SO-67.  We plan to have it "on air" again end-March /
beginning Apr this year.

 

We have so far successfully executed more than 320 payload activations
since we started using the SA-AMSAT payload in Q4 2009.

 

Thank you for your understanding and patience.

 

Best regards

Jan-Albert

 

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