Pakistan Space and Satellite Developments

[Destructlord]

Pakistan Badr-1 was launched before the Aryabhata i think. Pakistan had/has several other satellite why its says Badr-1 was the first Pakistani satellite?

 

[mean_bird]

Very well said mate....

Even in the sTart of it's space program Pakistan is looking directly at spy satellites. I mean it can be used for numerous other purposes like India's EduSat is used for education, Remote sensing satellites for weather, minerology, and data to help even fishermen to find fish in the sea!!!!!!

After launching 1st satellite in 1986, it is only now we are looking at spy satellites. Our space programme is Resarch oriented.

But Pakistan has other priorities I guess....Spy Satellites directly.....

dude.. Pakistan's satellites so far has been weather and the satellite we leased is for Telecom ( a lot of our TV channels used it).

.....Just to put the facts straight.

Also we capable of launching our own Satellite without any help from China or Iran. It just needs some time and money. We have expertise in all the technology that goes into an SLV. However, even with all the technology you need to initiate a program that will integrate it and launch it and that needs about 3(in case of assistance) to 5 years (in case of indigenous).

The previous govt. (Mushy) did give a green signal to develop our own SLV in late 2005. Our leased satellite is supposed to be replaced in 2011. So, unless Zardari and co. decides to cut the funds for SUPARCO, pakistan is going to launch its satellite itself in 2011.

The prototype of the satellite has already been built and an Engineering model is being built. Things on the satellite are moving according to schedule. Things on the SLV are critically dependent on the funding being made available.

Remember, once you have achieved a good knowledge on solid fuel missiles of a decent range (2000km) that goes to a good height (like in Shaheen-II) and that is multi-staged, building an SLV has more to do with integrating the technologies and testing the stability rather then developing new technologies.

 

[Destructlord]

Since Pakistan has the technology i dont think if it take more than maximum two years, You may need around 50-500 million dollar, But its mostly depend on what progress you made when the project was active.

Anyone know if the project resumed or not?

 

[H2O3C4Nitrogen]

yes it dosent takes much time but you need congenial environment to carry out such sattalite tests.

 

[mean_bird]

Since Pakistan has the technology i dont think if it take more than maximum two years, You may need around 50-500 million dollar, But its mostly depend on what progress you made when the project was active.

Anyone know if the project resumed or not?

It depends how large a team you dedicate to the project. You could dedicate large resources, a big team and do lots of tests and develop it quickly. Ofcourse that requires lot more money and in the end, its not a military application of critical importance so cost-effectiveness is a major concern.

That's why I said, with some assistance (basically some data rather than technology), it could be developed within 3 years. Pak has been testing some low orbit satellites from the Sonmiani test range, most weather satellites so we have enough data about that but not form higher orbits. Put is simply, we have a missile that is solid-fuel based, multi-staged. All thats needed is to modify it to reach the required height and separate the payload at the exact spot. For that you need some critical data usually obtained over some time. Of course all those times are just estimates not definitive.

I can't say if the project was halted or is going on smoothly as I have been out of country for some time and haven't stayed in touch with the guys at SUPARCO. I do know for sure, however, that such project was given a green signal.

 

[kokkaborra]

yahooo it great

 

[kokkaborra]

if pakistan launches a sattelite than it will expand pakistan defence more and pakistan will became a modren nation aswell.

 

[kokkaborra]

it is unbelevable that pakistan had build so many cruise and ballestic messiles than why he is not able to build a settelite.rather than iran had build it and he havent got any messile tecnology.

 

[mughaljee]

Today india launch its first "Jasoos" Satellite , now
i am waiting for My Home Land Pakistan Response ?

 

[white_pawn]

Pakistan Badr-1 was launched before the Aryabhata i think. Pakistan had/has several other satellite why its says Badr-1 was the first Pakistani satellite?

In 1961, on the advice of Prof. Abdus Salam, the then Scientific Adviser to the President of Pakistan, it was decided to set up a Committee dealing with space sciences. Consequently, a Space Sciences Research Wing of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) was established through an Executive Order of the President of Pakistan dated 16 September 1961, which was addressed to Dr I H Usmani, the then Chairman PAEC. The programme of rocket firings was entrusted to Chairman PAEC. Initially the Space Sciences Research Wing had the following members:

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Prof Abdus Salam, FRS - Chairman



Dr I H Usmani, Chairman PAEC - Vice-Chairman



Mr Sibte Nabi Naqvi, Director, Pakistan Meteorological Department - Member



Dr Innas Ali, Member PAEC - Member




In September 1961, Mr Tariq Mustafa, Principal Engineer , PAEC ; Mr Salim Mehmud, Scientific Officer PAEC; Mr Sikandar Zaman, Assistant Engineer PAEC; Mr A Z Farooqi, Scientific Officer PAEC; and Mr M Rehmatullah, Regional Director, Pakistan Meteorological Department were sent to NASA for training in rocket launching.


On 07 June 1962 at 1953 hours the two-stage rocket: Rehbar-I consisting of a Nike-Cajun combination (which was earlier developed by NASA) was successfully launched from Sonmiani Rocket Range. It carried a payload of 80 pounds of sodium and soared to about 130 km into the atmosphere. With the launching of Rehbar-I, Pakistan had the honour of becoming the third country in Asia and the tenth in the world to conduct such a launching. The other countries, which had, until then, already conducted launchings of this type were: USA, USSR, UK, France, Sweden, Italy, Canada, Japan and Israel. Rehbar-II was also successfully launched from Sonmiani Rocket Range on 09 June 1962.


The data received from Rehbar-I and Rehbar-II gave scientists information on wind shear and structure in the layers of the upper atmosphere extending beyond the stratosphere. The data collected also helped in the study of cloud formation, cyclones and weather over the Arabian Sea.


A high-powered meeting was held on 25 July 1964 under the Chairmanship of the then President of Pakistan. A number of decisions were taken in that meeting including the placement of SUPARCO under the direct control of the President of Pakistan. A three-tier structure was thus created consisting of (a) the Governing Body; (b) the Executive Committee; and (c) the Technical Committee to take care of and run SUPARCO's affairs. SUPARCO started functioning independent of PAEC with effect from 16 September 1964 with Dr I H Usmani looking after its affairs as its Co-Chairman.


The structure of SUPARCO was superseded by a Government of Pakistan Resolution dated 8 March 1966 whereby SUPARCO was constituted as a separate organisation under the administrative control of Scientific and Technological Research Division (S&TR), Government of Pakistan and a revised constitution for SUPARCO was adopted in the shape of "Rules of SUPARCO" issued by S&TR Division on 19 April 1967. Air Cdre W J M Turowicz was appointed as the first Executive Director of SUPARCO (Air Cdre Turowicz was a Polish national who served in the Royal Air Force in India in WW-II and after the war, he was among those Polish Air Force Pilots who opted for Pakistan's nationality).


In 1970, after the retirement of Air Cdre Turowicz, Air Cdre K M Ahmed was appointed as SUPARCO's second Executive Director who relieved his charge in 1976 to Mr Salim Mehmud, who remained Executive Director of SUPARCO until 15 December 1979 when he resigned the service of SUPARCO. Dr M Shafi Ahmed succeeded Mr Salim Mehmud and remained in office till 15 December 1980 when the President of Pakistan appointed Mr Salim Mehmud as Chief Executive Officer of SUPARCO and asked him to submit necessary recommendations for up-gradation of SUPARCO to the status of a full-fledged Commission.


On 22 April 1981, Mr Salim Mehmud was appointed as the first Chairman of Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO).


The President of Pakistan signed and promulgated SUPARCO Ordinance No. XX of 1981, which was issued in the Gazette of Pakistan on 21 May 1981, to provide for the establishment of a Space Research Council (SRC), an Executive Committee of the Space Research Council (ECSRC) and the Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO), granting SUPARCO an autonomous status. The then Chairman SUPARCO established three Technical Wings namely; Space Technology Wing, Space Research Wing and Space Electronics Wing. The National Assembly, ratified SUPARCO Ordinance vide Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (Amendment) Act, 1987-Act No. II of 1987, providing for, inter alia, the replacement of President of Pakistan with the Prime Minister of Pakistan as the President of Space Research Council.


SUPARCO remained under the administrative control of the Cabinet Division until September 2000 for almost 20 years. During this period, only one meeting of the SRC (headed by the President of Pakistan) and 13 meetings of ECSRC (headed by the Federal Minister for Finance) were held. The last meeting of ECSRC was held on 09 September 1999. The SRC, in its first-ever meeting held on 24 December 1984, approved the Long-Term Development Programme of Space Science and Technology in Pakistan, submitted by SUPARCO, which contained projects of national importance.



BADR-1 satellite was launched on 16 July 1990, from a Chinese launcher, the Long March 2E (LM-2E).Mr Salim Mehmud retired on 13 April 1989 and Dr M Shafi Ahmed took over as the second Chairman of SUPARCO. On 16 July 1990, Pakistan launched its first experimental satellite BADR-1.

Dr M Shafi Ahmed retired on 16 October 1990 and handed over the charge of the Office to Mr Sikandar Zaman who retired on 19 June 1997. Dr Abdul Majid was appointed Chairman with effect from 20 June 1997.

On 10 December 2000, the Cabinet Division issued an Office Order No. 564, through its Notification No. 5/11/2000-Admin.II., whereby, in pursuance of the order of the Chief Executive of Pakistan, SUPARCO Commission was transferred from Cabinet Division to the National Command Authority (NCA); the Space Research Council and Executive Committee of Space Research Council were dissolved and were replaced with Development Control Committee (DCC) of NCA.

On his retirement on 30 April 2001, Dr Abdul Majid handed over the charge of the Office of Chairman SUPARCO to Mr Raza Hussain.


Pakistan’s second satellite BADR-B was launched on 10 Dec 2001 at 9:15 a.m from Baikonour Cosmodrome, Kazakistan.SUPARCO launched the second experimental satellite BADR-B on 10 Dec 2001and is continuously working towards developing indigenous capabilities in satellite development.

History

 

[white_pawn]

Pakistan Badr-1 was launched before the Aryabhata i think. Pakistan had/has several other satellite why its says Badr-1 was the first Pakistani satellite?

ISRO'S Milestones

 

[ironman]

http://www.sindhtoday.net/pakistan/86371.htm
http://www.zeenews.com/south-asia/2009-04-13/523169news.html
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/south-asia/pak-to-launch-first-indigenous-communications-satellite-in-2011_100179063.html

Pakistan will launch its first indigenously developed communications satellite on 2011 ​

Pakistan will launch its first indigenously developed communications satellite on August 14, 2011, from a facility in China.

Speaking to Dawn, Dr Mohammad Riaz Suddle, the director of the Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission's (Suparco) satellite research and development centre in Lahore, said the satellite's life span will be 15 years.

Responding to a question, Dr Suddle said the satellite would be launched at a longitude of 38 degrees in geostationary orbit on the equatorial plane at an altitude of 36,000km above the Earth's surface.

Paksat-1R will carry a communications payload to facilitate the introduction of a range of new services, including broadband internet, digital TV distribution/broadcasting, remote/rural telephony, emergency communications, tele-education and tele-medicine.

The contract for Pakis- tan Communication Satellite (Paksat-1R) was signed between Suparco and China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC), a Chinese firm, on October 15, 2008, in Beijing, during President Asif Zardari's visit to China.

Work on the execution of the contract began soon after, and is progressing as scheduled, according to Dr Suddle. He did not reveal the cost of the project, but said the contract involves various other projects, including infrastructure, and therefore it is difficult to put an exact cost on the satellite itself.

Responding to a question, he said that at least two new satellites - Paksat-1R and Pakistan Remote Sensing Satellite (PRSS) - would be launched in the near future.

The satellites have been developed with technical and financial assistance from China.

The project has been approved by the federal government as part of the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP), he said.

When quizzed on where the finances for the project were coming from, Dr Suddle said that efforts are under way to secure a long-term concessional loan from the Chinese government to finance a major part of the project.

Speaking about the status of Pakistan's space programme in comparison to that of other countries in the region, Dr Suddle asserted that Pakistan's space/satellite development programme "needs to make rapid and sustained progress to meet national needs. India has a very advanced space programme".

At present, Pakistan has a communications satellite, Paksat-1, in orbit, providing coverage across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia and the South Asian subcontinent. It is being used by TV broadcasters, telecom companies, data and broadband internet service providers and government organisations.

Paksat-1R will replace Paksat-1, a leased satellite, to ensure continuity of service.

In the 1990s, Pakistan also operated a small satellite, Badr-A, in low earth orbit. The country's modest space program, however, has been more oriented towards remote sensing applications.

Badr-A was Pakistan's first indigenously developed satellite and was launched from the Xichang Launch Centre in China on July 16, 1990 aboard a Chinese Long March 2E rocket. Badr-A weighed 150 pounds, and was inserted into an elliptical orbit of 127-615 miles by the rocket. The satellite successfully completed its design life.

Pakistan's second satellite, Badr-B, was an earth observation satellite and was launched on Dec 10, 2001, on a Zenit-2 rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It was designed by Space Innovations Limited, a UK-based company.

Paksat-1 was Pakistan's first geostationary satellite. It was originally known as Palapa C1, was launched in 1996 and had been designed to serve Indonesia. After an electronics failure, it was renamed Anatolia-1 and then renamed again to become Paksat-1 in 2002. It was originally manufactured by Boeing and uses the HS601 spacecraft design.

Suparco set about trying to replace Paksat-1 by signing a consultancy deal with Telesat in March 2007, under which the company will advise Pakistan on the purchase, manufacture and launch of Paksat-1R. Under the agreement, Telesat will help Suparco find a manufacturer and provide technical and commercial advice during the negotiations process. Telesat will also help to oversee the construction of the new satellite and will monitor the launch and provide in-orbit testing services.

Reports quoting credible sources said that Pakistan is also working on development of Satellite Launch Vehicles (SLVs), basing their assumption on Pakistan's success in developing intermediate range ballistic missiles.

Experts believe the missile technology will be used in any SLV. The Indian SLV-3/ASLV uses Agni ballistic missiles as first stage propulsion units and as boosters.

Suparco has already tested two high-altitude sounding rockets: Shahpar and Rakhnum. Shahpar is a seven metre solid fuel two-stage rocket that can carry a payload of 55 kilograms to an altitude of 450 kilometres. Rakhnum can lift a payload of 38kg to an altitude of 100km.

Although Dr Suddle says that Pakistan's new communication satellite would be launched on August 14, 2011, judging from Pakistan's progress in ballistic missile technology, analysts do not rule out the possibility that Suparco may just be waiting for the right moment to test Pakistan's first satellite launch vehicle.

In this context, they cite Dr A.Q. Khan's reported statement in March 2001, in which he had claimed that Pakistani scientists were in the process of building the country's first SLV and that the project had been assigned to Suparco.

According to reports published in March 2005, former president and retired general Pervez Musharraf had authorised renewed research and development on an indigenous launch capability that would be able to put into orbit a domestically built satellite, Paksat-1R.

 

[cabatli_53]

"Pakistan will launch its first indigenously developed communications satellite on August 14, 2011, from a facility in China."

Congratulations Brothers... Pakistan will be developed its first communication satellites in the late of 2011... Super news indeed...

By the way, What about Electro-Optic Spy satellites ? For future, Pakistan has a spy satellite project that is aimmed to take high-resolution pictures from strategic areas of enemy fronts ?

 

[mughaljee]

Too deep , but i am happy

 

[daprinc3]

NO NATION IN THE WORLD HAS BEEN TO THE MOON BECAUSE EARTH ROTATES AROUND A RADIOACTIVE ORBIT SO EVEN NASA, WHO CLAIM TO HAVE LANDED ON THE MOON, HAVENT DONE SO. BECAUSE NEITHER IS THER SLV BUILT TO STAND RADIOACTIVITY. AND EVEN INDIAS CLAIMING THEY LANDED ON THE MOON, A COUNTRY WHICH HAS BEEN DEVELOPING MISSILE TECHNOLOGY FOR THE PAST TWO DECADES.
SORRY TO BURST EVERYONES BUBBLE
BUT INSHALLAH PAKISTAN WILL LAND ON THE MOON ONE DAY