Leon Steenkamp
leonsteenkamp.bsky.social
Leon Steenkamp
@leonsteenkamp.bsky.social
Building small satellites on the tip of Africa. My other ride is a CubeSat.
https://leonsteenkamp.co.za/
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The video for my #taloscon2025 keynote is now up!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cum5...
November 13, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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New blog post: Synthetic aperture radar autofocus and calibration.
Synthetic aperture radar autofocus and calibration
3D trajectory position error estimation autofocus, antenna pattern normalization, and polarimetric calibration for drone mounted SAR radar.
hforsten.com
October 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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China's CGST has returned the favour, using its Jilin-1 sats to image a Maxar Worldview Legion 2 satellite. mp.weixin.qq.com/s/3oGA5_HVKJ...
September 13, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Interesting paper shared by a colleague and right in @thinkstcanary.canary.tools 's coal mine

HoneySat: A Network-based Satellite Honeypot Framework
arxiv.org/pdf/2505.24008
arxiv.org
September 1, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Capturing the Moon: Dragonfly Expands Imaging Capabilities

Dragonfly Aerospace has successfully demonstrated a significant new capability: capturing high-precision images of the Moon using the dual DragonEye imagers aboard its EOSSAT-1 satellite.

dragonflyaerospace.com/capturing-th...
Capturing the Moon: Dragonfly Expands Imaging Capabilities
Dragonfly's EOSSAT-1 has successfully captured images of the Moon, advancing its imaging capabilities into Non-Earth Imaging.
dragonflyaerospace.com
July 29, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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‘This lesson could help the industry,’ Cybersmart cofounder and CTO Laurie Fialkov told Daily Maverick in a candid interview as the national outage dust settles.
DIGITAL STANDSTILL: EXCLUSIVE: Cybersmart founder owns the internet outage
www.dailymaverick.co.za
May 15, 2025 at 9:51 PM
“And yet we knew, for a certainty, that when the first emissaries of Earth went walking among the planets, Earth's other sons would be dreaming not about such expeditions but about a piece of bread.”

His Masters's Voice - Stanisław Lem
March 22, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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New blog post: "Homemade polarimetric synthetic aperture radar drone".

hforsten.com/homemade-pol...
February 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Holy cow, atmospheric conditions today for VHF propagation is something else.
That is over a 1000 km for an AIS message.
December 9, 2024 at 5:44 PM
carpe diem
November 14, 2024 at 6:40 PM
German warship arrives in Cape Town
November 12, 2024 at 7:54 AM