SumbandilaSat
The University of Stellenbosch, SunSpace and the CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) were key players in constructing SumbandilaSat.The CSIR's Satellite Application Centre (CSIR-SAC) was responsible for operations, telemetry, tracking, control as well as data capturing.Furthermore, the data was used to, amongst others, monitor and manage disasters such as flooding, oil spills and fires within Southern Africa.This has caused it to stop fulfilling its primary objective and it has been written off as a loss by SunSpace, its builder.[7] The launch site was the Baikonur Cosmodrome LC-31/6, which is located at the following coordinates: * Courtesy of SunSpace It had a number of secondary experimental payloads on board:[3]