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A rocket carrying three nanosatellites built by CPUT students was launched from Cape Canaveral in the United States on 13 January 2022. Picture: @CPUT/Twitter

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CPUT celebrates successful space launch of nanosatellites

By Kevin Brandt

The constellation of satellites will help improve South Africa’s maritime surveillance.

  • Three South African nanosatellites have been launched from Cape Canaveral in the US. Picture: CPUT.

    First for South Africa as locally made nanosatellites launched in US

    The R27-million project has been mandated by the Department of Science and Innovation to enhance South Africa’s oceanic sovereignty.

    125 days ago
  • The three locally produced nanosatellites will be launched into space on 13 January 2022 as part of SA's Maritime Domain Awareness Satellite (MDASat) constellation. Picture: Supplied by CPUT

    Ocean monitoring in SA set for major boost with launch of 3 nanosatellites

    The project will see the satellites, weighing just over two kilograms each, launched into orbit from the Cape Canaveral facility in the US on Thursday.

    126 days ago
  • The Cape Peninsula University of Technology. Picture: Cindy Archillies/Eyewitness News

    CPUT students call on management to address allowance issues

    The SRC on Tuesday said some students hadn’t been assisted since the start of the academic year.

    548 days ago
  • The Cape Peninsula University of Technology's Cape Town campus. Picture: CPUT.ac.za

    COVID-19: Most WC universities evacuated ahead of lockdown

    Univeristiies across the province have chartered buses to ensure that students make their way home safely ahead of the lockdown.

    784 days ago
  • Protesting CPUT students make their from the university's District Six campus to Parliament in Cape Town on 12 March 2020. Picture: Jarita Kassen/EWN.

    Parly’s education committee promises to address CPUT students’ grievances

    Hundreds of students handed over a memorandum to the national legislature on Thursday.

    797 days ago
  • Protesting CPUT students make their from the university's District Six campus to Parliament in Cape Town on 12 March 2020. Picture: Jarita Kassen/EWN

    Protesting CPUT students march on Parliament, hand over memorandum

    They marched to the gates of Parliament after hundreds of students from across the Cape came together for a mass meeting at CPUT's District Six campus.

    798 days ago
  • Picture: www.cput.ac.za.

    Unpaid NSFAS allowances one of reasons behind CPUT protest

    Demonstrations started two weeks ago and turned violent, with buildings and cars stoned.

    798 days ago
  • The Cape Peninsula University of Technology's Cape Town campus. Picture: CPUT.ac.za

    Protesting CPUT students assemble for mass meeting at CT campus

    Classes have been suspended for the rest of the week due to ongoing violent protests.

    798 days ago
  • Picture: www.cput.ac.za.

    Continued violent protests sees CPUT classes suspended again

    CPUT's Lauren Kansley explained the university was operating as usual yesterday but protests persisted.

    799 days ago
  • The Cape Peninsula University of Technology's Cape Town campus. Picture: CPUT.ac.za

    CPUT resumes operations after classes suspended over violent protests

    Four students were arrested and charged with public violence and appeared in court earlier this week.

    800 days ago
  • The Cape Peninsula University of Technology. Picture: Cindy Archillies/Eyewitness News

    Protest action sees CPUT suspend operations

    Over the past few days, students have been removed from their lecture rooms and the library by demonstrators who reportedly told them they won't allow classes to continue until their grievances are heard.

    804 days ago
  • The Cape Peninsula University of Technology. Picture: Cindy Archillies/Eyewitness News

    Protesters disrupt some classes at CPUT's Bellville campus

    Over the past two days, students have been removed from their lecture rooms and from the library.

    807 days ago
  • A screengrab of the fake CPUT notice being circulated on social media.

    Fake CPUT 'musturbation' notice gets a rise from Tweeps

    The Cape Peninsula University of Technology said that it did not issue a notice about 'musturbation'.

    923 days ago
  • FILE: Picture: SAPS.

    CPUT student kidnapped outside hospital, sexually assaulted

    On Tuesday night, the woman was abducted outside Tygerberg Hospital and sexually assault.

    986 days ago
  • Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) students protest against gender-based violence on 29 August 2019. Picture: Lizell Persens/EWN

    Enough is enough: CPUT students take stand against gender-based violence

    Nearly 100 youths took a stand against this social ill at the university's District Six campus with placards on Thursday afternoon.

    993 days ago
  • Students stage a sit-in at the University of Witwatersrand on 5 February 2019. Picture: Thando Kubheka/EWN

    [OPINION] Students are protesting – again. Why it needn’t be this way

    South Africa students are protesting and have brought university campuses to a stand still. This could have been avoided.

    1195 days ago
  • FILE: Picture: Cindy Archillies/EWN

    CPUT students hand over memorandum of demands over transport, accommodation

    A group of protesting students from the Western Cape College of Nursing in Athlone has handed over a memorandum of demands to the CPUT vice-chancellor, Chris Nhlapo.

    1196 days ago
  • The team behind CPUT's Solar Flyer solar-powered car. Picture: Cindy Archillies/EWN

    [WATCH] CPUT unveils Solar Flyer solar-powered car

    The car was designed as part of the Sasol Solar Car Challenge 2018 which sees teams from across the world design and build solar-powered vehicles to race from Pretoria to Cape Town.

    1344 days ago
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