EAK-Orbitals was founded by a small team of South African student engineers. We actively encourage youth in space — reach out to any of us for help, guidance or mentorship. We were once exactly where you are.
Founded EAK-Orbitals with no capital and owns mission architecture end to end. Student pilot.
“One day they'll call it ambition. Today they call it impossible.”
Leads sponsorship, partnerships and the commercialisation of Sustaino-1 telemetry and imagery.
“I don't want to be remembered for what I dreamed — but for what I built.”
Owns the Ø 88 mm TubeSat structure, internal stack, deployment mechanism and mass budget.
“The distance between a dream and reality is measured by the days you refuse to quit.”
Designs the power system — GaAs strings, MPPT and Li-Po buffer — and the flight electronics.
“Dreams become plans. Plans become prototypes. Prototypes become history.”
Plans pass scheduling and command sequences, and defines payload pointing, exposure and calibration.
“Floating in the eternal dark, we harvest the light of a fragile home.”
Writes the onboard state machine, watchdog, safe-mode recovery and edge-AI frame triage.
“We built an eye in the abyss — not to look away from the world, but to watch it breathe.”
Owns thermal, vacuum, radiation and vibration qualification for the flight model.
“We capture the Earth's quiet whispers, turning raw light into truth.”
Runs EAK-GS1 in Johannesburg — the az/el Yagi array, Doppler-corrected LoRa and the mission archive.
“Dreams are remembered. Sacrifices are forgotten. Yet one cannot exist without the other.”
“The sky was never the destination. It was only the first milestone.”