This Wednesday, Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) announced at World Space Week 2017, that Pakistan’s first remote sensing satellite called PRSS-1 will be launched in March 2018.
After the satellite’s launch, Pakistan won’t have to pay huge sums to foreign space companies for satellite-dependant data.
Ayaz Aziz Member of Range and Instrumentation (R&I) was the chief guest at a ceremony in the National Center for Remote Sensing & Geo-Informatics. He said, while addressing the ceremony,
Our first optical remote sensing satellite PRSS-1 is all set to be launched in 2018 with which Pakistan will become self-reliant in multispectral imaging thus saving a huge foreign exchange on account of satellite imagery and satellite-based monitoring of various national projects. Our communication satellite Paksat-1R is up and running with efficient provision of communication and broadcast services throughout the country and neighboring regions.
World Space Week 2017
World Space Week 2017 is an annual ceremony which is officially defined as
An international celebration of science and technology, and their contribution to the betterment of the human condition.
An inaugural ceremony was held at the Institute of Space Technology (IST) Islamabad. Chairman of SUPARCO, Qaiser Anees Khurram inaugurated the ceremony as the chief guest.
The World Space Week will be celebrated in 16 cities of Pakistan from 4th till 10th October.
Space Education Bus
At the end of the ceremony held at NCRG, the chief guest and Suparco officials exhibited their “space education bus” to create awareness related to space education in schools and especially rural areas in Sindh.
World Space Week is exciting for people, especially for young students because of their curiosity about our universe and what it has to offer. It encourages the students to seek education and knowledge in the fields of space, science, and technology.
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The whole article is your answer, why didn’t you read?
When you are in a hurry to be the first to comment, you dont get time to read the article,, see the headline and just write something,,, which never makes sense.
your question depicts that you didn’t read the whole article :P your answer is in the article not in the heading
Would have been incredible news if launched from own soil through own built rocket.
Right now we (Pakistan) don’t have ability to launch from our own soil.
Surely that doesn’t mean we can’t do this, we can do this too but it requires a lot of effort and no recognition from rural areas of Pakistan. Where people elect rulers on the basis of road construction or jhotay waday :)
I think people are right as rural roads are more necessary.
Such a misleading news article. It is not the Pakistan’s first satellite. They are talking about the Pakistan’s first remote sensing satellite into space.
Go and study “Badr 1” ( Pakistan’s first satellite into space) history.
Is this satellite assembled locally or
is it just bought as off the shelf solution ?
Hammmmaaaain Aur chahiay
In Sha Allah
Soon we will be like Developed Country
:)
it is a great news for Pakistan and Pakistani peoples to launching a remot sensing satellite in space
i love Pakistan
long live Pakistan