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.