Pakistan To Build, Launch Own Satellite

Badr-1 - Pakistan's first amateur Radio satellite. The tiny spacecraft was launched as a secondary payload on a Chinese Long March 2E rocket from the Xichang Launch Center on July 16, 1990.

Islamabad (SPX) Mar 29, 2005
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has given a green signal to manufacturing and launching Pakistan's own satellite, local newspaper The News reported Sunday.

Pakistan has decided to manufacture the latest communication and surveillance satellite version and launchers indigenously, which would play a crucial role in prosperity and defense of the nation, the report said.

The Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) has been reorganized and its scientists and technicians given the necessary incentives to make greater contribution to thecountry's entry into space on its own.

Scientists, engineers and technicians of the Commission have started to accomplish the task assigned by the president.

Up till now SUPARCO had been manufacturing weather forecast satellites, the report said.

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