Tag Archives: University of Khartoum

Feb 26 2013

Reception of UniBRITE amateur radio CW beacon reported from Sudan

AMSAT-UK_Bevelled_LogoUniBrite (CanX 3A) was launched Monday, February 25, on the same rocket as STRaND-1. It has an amateur radio Morse Code beacon on 145.980 MHz.

This report was posted on the AMSAT Bulletin Board by Yasir Osman ST2YM in Khartoum, Sudan.

ST2UOK ground station at the University of Khartoum, Sudan has tracked the
first pass over Africa of AAUSAT-3 , STRaND-1 and UniBRITE after the
launching in 12:25 UTC, a CW signal with high noise heard and expected to
be the beacon of the UniBRITE. As pointed by operators Abubakr, Yasir ,
Mustafa and Hala.

BRITE: World’s Smallest Space Telescopes Launching Monday http://www.amsat-uk.org/?p=13274

Details of other satellites on the same launch http://www.amsat-uk.org/?p=12180

Nov 20 2012

KN-SAT1 Prototype Subsystems Design and Testing

KN-SAT1 Students at ST2UOK Khartoum

KN-SAT1 Students at ST2UOK Khartoum

The KN-SAT1 CubeSat, which will have a VHF downlink, is being developed at the University Of Khartoum.

Mahmoud Esawi has made available a video which shows KN-SAT1 Prototype2 subsystems design and testing.

Continue reading →

May 24 2012

TEDxKhartoum Presentation on KN-SAT1 CubeSat

KN-SAT1 Students at ST2UOK Khartoum

KN-SAT1 Students at ST2UOK Khartoum

Abubakr S. Eltayeb ST2AB is an Electrical Engineer specializing in communications systems. He is currently a member of the Cube Satellite Project which belongs to the Faculty of Engineering at University of Khartoum.

The team includes his colleagues Hala M. Othman, Mustafa Atta Mohamed and Yasir M. Osman ST2YM, and together they constructed the first satellite in Sudan with the help of Dr. Tahani Abdalla, their project manager and Dr. Nader Abdelhameed, the team manager. They designed, tested and experimentally launched a fully functional Cube Satellite prototype named KN-SAT1.

The team is now developing the Flight Model of the KN-SAT1, in preparation for its launch into outer space.

This TEDxKhartoum presentation is not in English, however, the segment from 09:12 until 13:25 contains video showing the development of the KN-SAT1 CubeSat including a test of the deployment of the antennas.

Watch TEDxKhartoum 2012: Abubakr S. Eltayeb, A Sudanese Satellite

Khartoum Amateur Radio Satellite Ground Station http://www.uk.amsat.org/4316

KN-Sat1 http://cubesat.uofk.edu/

Sudanese Amateur Radio and SWL History http://www.st2nh.com/sudanamateurradioandswlhistory

Feb 17 2012

Khartoum Students Receive CubeSats

KN-SAT1 students at ST2UOK Khartoum

KN-SAT1 students at ST2UOK Khartoum

Students at the University of Khartoum, Sudan have been eagerly listening for the new amateur radio satellites deployed by the Vega launcher on Monday, Feb 13.

The students are undertaking a CubeSat project KN-SAT1. As part of the project they recently completed the installation of a satellite groundstation at ST2UOK. This was used to track and receive telemetry data from the Vega satellites.

KN-SAT1 is the first CubeSat to be built in Sudan and an aim is to promote space engineering and space science education at other Sudanese educational institutes.

Watch the students receiving packets from Masat-1 14:00 UTC Feb 14, 2012

KN-Sat1 http://cubesat.uofk.edu/

Sudanese Amateur Radio and SWL History http://www.st2nh.com/sudanamateurradioandswlhistory

ST2NH Blog http://st2nh-blogger.blogspot.com/