What does HBK stand for?

The microsatellite has a data storage capacity of 6 gigabyte to hold these images until they can be downloaded to the data reception ground station at the Satellite Applications Centre (SAC) of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research at Hartebeesthoek, west of Pretoria.

On 3 October 2008 the 26m HartRAO antenna at Hartebeesthoek suffered a failure of its major bearing at the southern end of the main polar drive shaft.

Norbert Bartel of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics told the meeting that if optical astronomers though they had a hard time getting telescope time in a hurry, they should have been in on the 58 hours of telephoning it took to arrange simultaneous observations by the two radiotelescopes in the Southern Hemisphere capable of this work, which are located at Hartebeesthoek, South Africa, and Tidbinbilla, near Canberra, Australia.

Welcoming guests from government, academia and industry at the inauguration event held at the CSIR s Hartebeesthoek site on 25 March 2009, Dr Sibusiso Sibisi, CSIR president and CEO, noted, This expansion to our existing antenna farm here at Hartebeesthoek represents our proactive commitment to support the establishment of space-related infrastructure.

Controllers at the Hartebeesthoek ground station in South Africa made contact with the satellite and confirmed that all systems are functioning properly.

The Hartebeesthoek ground station near Johannesburg, South Africa, will be tracking the spacecraft to acquire its first signals soon after spacecraft separation.

Controllers at the Hartebeesthoek ground station in South Africa made contact with the satellite and confirmed that all systems are functioning properly.

Operators at the Hartebeesthoek ground station in South Africa acquired the spacecraft's first signals from orbit shortly after spacecraft separation.