TshepisoSAT Team
Forty CPUT/F’SATI postgraduate students designed and built TshepisoSAT, also known as ZACUBE-1, the first CubeSat developed in Africa by postgraduate students. Launched in November 2013, the mission returned ionospheric radio-propagation data for the South African National Space Agency and trained a generation of satellite engineers.
Identity
- Field
- CubeSat systems, space-weather payloads, radio propagation, integration, ground communications, and mission operations
- Name
- TshepisoSAT Team
- Region
- AFR
- Status
- historical
Details
- Description
- Forty CPUT/F’SATI postgraduate students designed and built TshepisoSAT, also known as ZACUBE-1, the first CubeSat developed in Africa by postgraduate students. Launched in November 2013, the mission returned ionospheric radio-propagation data for the South African National Space Agency and trained a generation of satellite engineers.
- Latitude
- -33.931838
- Location
- Longitude
- 18.6421452
- University
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- Creation Time
- July 29, 2026 at 10:02:14 UTC
- Updated Time
- July 29, 2026 at 10:02:14 UTC