THE IMPACT OF THE SUDANESE 1ST CUBESAT PROJECT, KN-SAT1

摘要

In recent years, many of universities and institutions that are adopting the concept of the CubeSat program are paving their countries' way in the space field. Establishing a small satellite project allow all the involved personnel to grasp theoretical and practical knowledge regarding the design, the implementation, the accompanied scientific subjects and the management aspects of the field. I.e. Electromagnetics, Antennas and Wave Propagation, Transmission Lines, Astrophysics, Automation and Control, satellite mission design, space program management, space law, etc. One of the greatest benefits can be addressed is that the country gets in touch with a technical community over the world that is eager to help, the institutes receive other small satellites data, participants analyzes these data to have a good insights which help them in developing their own systems. In Sudan, University of Khartoum (UofK) has initiated the CubeSat program in 2010 and adopted the educational value behind the program. The project was called KN-SATI project, it never launched a satellite to the orbit but in the ground segment, a high standard educational ground station was designed and built in the faculty of engineering. In the space segment, prototypes have been designed and manufactured in the university labs. In the capacity building the projects trained number of engineers, academics and managers and most of them are doing useful contributions in the space maturity of Sudan. Although the project wasn't fully successful, it had a high positive impact on Sudan. and it is still fruitful! This paper focus on the influence done by the project in the space tiled in Sudan, both directly and in directly. It also gives some technical and most importantly managerial overview about the project to give a general understanding about the situation during and after the project. The now position of the pioneers who started the project is traced and stated within the paper. The organizations and i