Your students build a real satellite.
Start an accredited university space club and give your institution a place in the new African space economy.
From design to a working satellite in 3 steps
A path for universities that want to train space engineers who can do the work, not only theorists.
Design
Mission architecture, system requirements and link budgets, with the NMD mission design tools.
Assemble
Printed circuits, ESP32 sensors, TinyGS antennas. Students work on real hardware.
Test
Integration, verification and validation. Industrial protocols from end to end.
What your university gains
NMD certification
Every certified engineer receives an official NMD certificate. Your university joins the space community and seizes its opportunities.
Real satellites, real credibility
Your students build real satellites. Your university gains credibility in the space community in Africa and in the world.
Hands-on training
24 hours of hands-on work: from soldering the PCB to operating the TinyGS ground station.
End-to-end support
NMD delivers, installs, trains and supports. No prior space expertise is required from your team.
Permanent infrastructure
The TinyGS ground station stays at the university, a lasting teaching asset for every following class.
200+ NMD certified
Join a network of space engineers trained and certified to the same standard from Cameroon.
Space clubs already at work
These institutions have a Space Club with NMD: their students design, assemble and test real satellite hardware.
- Your members pass the NMD certification.
- Your club builds and tests its satellites to NMD standards.
- NMD shares the profile of your certified members who take part in space projects with the world.
Only the president of the club applies, with an NMD account. One club per institution.
Be the next university to build its own satellite.
NMD supplies the components and helps your club build one satellite. Your students get real hardware, a lasting ground station and an official NMD certification.
One satellite, built by your students
Individual certification: NMD Space Mission Designer L1
Membership 15,000 XAF · Online courses free for members · Certification 100,000 XAF for members
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