Electronic Systems Laboratory (ESL)

The ESL is a Computer and Control Systems group laboratory in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Stellenbosch. It provides opportunities to graduate students and industries to become involved in joint developments of significant size. We aim to maintain skills in computers, data communications, imaging and system simulation through prototype developments with industry.

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SUNSAT Micro satellite was successfully launched at 23 February 1999, 12:29:53. For further information use the BOEING link. If you would like to see how SUNSAT was released and the boom deployed then look at this AVI-File (33 seconds by 7.78MB) or download this ZIP-File (5.1 MB). Here are some pictures of the launch released in a ZIP-File (500 KB).

The SUNSAT Micro satellite