{"id":87342,"date":"2010-03-12T00:58:57","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T16:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/sspi-timeline-1999-sunsat\/"},"modified":"2010-03-12T00:58:57","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T16:58:57","slug":"sspi-timeline-1999-sunsat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/sspi-timeline-1999-sunsat\/","title":{"rendered":"SSPI Timeline: 1999 \u2013 Sunsat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>February 23, 1999: The launch of the Stellenbosch University Satellite (SUNSAT) added South Africa to the list of satellite nations. This micro-satellite, designed and built by electrical engineering students at the Stellenbosch University in South Africa, was designed for operation in low Earth orbit to provide imaging, worldwide store-and-forward email communications and remote sensing including studies of the Earth\u2019s magnetic field, gravity field, atmosphere, and ionosphere plus intercomparison of GPS and SLR precision orbits<\/p>\n<p>Click here to view this event in the SSPI Satellite Industry Timeline<\/p>\n<p>Visit the SSPI Satellite Industry Timeline to tour the decades of the Satellite Era<\/p>\n<p>The SSPI Satellite Timeline is the first interactive site on the Web to chronicle the rich and diverse history of the commercial satellite industry. Launched in October 2007 \u2013 the 50th anniversary of Sputnik \u2013 the Timeline is a learning tool for satellite professionals, students, the news media and the innovative companies that make up the industry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 23, 1999: The launch of the Stellenbosch University Satellite (SUNSAT) added South Africa to the list of satellite nations. This micro-satellite, designed and built by electrical engineering students at the Stellenbosch University in South Africa, was designed for operation in low Earth orbit to provide imaging, worldwide store-and-forward email communications and remote sensing including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}