Reliving Pakistan's First Domestically made satellite Launch

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Video Reference:
http://www.suparco.gov.pk/downloadables/paksat1r-web-full.wmv

Launch date 11 August 2011

PakSat-1R (PakSat-1 Replacement) is an advanced geosynchronous communications satellite that is manufactured and operated by the Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO), an executive space authority of the government of Pakistan. China was behind its design, build, launch and funding.

PakSat-1R was Pakistan's first newly built geostationary telecommunications satellite and was launched from Xichang, China, at 16:15 UTC on 11 August 2011. Launched on the Long March 3B rocket, the satellite has a design life of 15 years with initial goals to provide broadband internet access, digital television broadcasting, remote and rural telephony, emergency communications, tele-education and tele-medicine services across South and Central Asia, Eastern Europe, East Africa and the Far East. The satellite successfully took over the operations of its predecessor, the PakSat-1 satellite leased by Pakistan, in geostationary orbit at 38° East

2014 is set to see a new launch by Pakistan

Reference:
Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) would launch a high resolution Remote Sensing Satellite System (RSSS), in 2014, to meet the national and international user requirements in the field of satellite imagery. | Pakistan Today | Latest news | Breaking news | Pakistan News | World news | Business | Sport and Multimedia

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) would launch a high resolution Remote Sensing Satellite System (RSSS), in 2014, to meet the national and international user requirements in the field of satellite imagery.

Talking to sources, an official said that it will be helpful in exploiting the potentials of space technologies for natural resource surveying and environmental monitoring. RSSS will also be significant in executing application projects of national significance, transfer technology to users in public and private sectors as remote sensing along with its allied technologies which has become an industry in itself.

The official was of the view that RSSS will also be helpful in improving agriculture of the country, water resources, ennvironment and other such issues. Pakistan entered the space age with the formal launching of a second hand Paksat-I in January 200. "Since then our scientists and engineers had been making endeavours to launch indigenous satellite and ensure country's permanent presence in the space" he said.

Pakistan launched communication satellite Paksat-IR in 2011, which has 30 transponders, design life of 15 years and will provide TV broadcasting, internet and data communications services in South and Central Asia, Eastern Europe, East Africa and the Far East.

Under the vision 2040 of Pakistan's Space program, many more satellites will be launched, which will help to improve socio-economic condition of the country

 

[Khaqan Humayun]

Our media do not have time to focus on this achievement of Pakistan if it was the Birthday of any Indian actor they must have Given time and focus them.

 

[acetophenol]

Never knew that China used to have Pak flag on their launch vehicle!

 

[chauvunist]

Never knew that China used to have Pak flag on their launch vehicle!

I hope your back burning have been relieved after uttering such Bollocks...

 

[acetophenol]

I hope your back burning have been relieved after uttering such Bollocks...

Chill buddy,I didn't mean to troll.Your satelite was being launched using a chinese launch vehicle,and I have never seen a nation putting another nation's flag on their launch vehicle.

 

[My-Analogous]

Chill buddy,I didn't mean to troll.Your satelite was being launched using a chinese launch vehicle,and I have never seen a nation putting another nation's flag on their launch vehicle.

This is called "Iron brothers"

 

[acetophenol]

This is called "Iron brothers"

In International arena,there are no brothers,no friends,no enemies,just a bunch of nations trying to safeguard their own interests.

 

[Kompromat]

In International arena,there are no brothers,no friends,no enemies,just a bunch of nations trying to safeguard their own interests.

Okay you had your daily doze of 'teaching us how international politics works'. Scoot !

Our media do not have time to focus on this achievement of Pakistan if it was the Birthday of any Indian actor they must have Given time and focus them.

We are putting up another satellite this year. Lets kick start the economy, extract our minerals, open our market and stop fighting other people's wars.

Pakistan ought to be a trillion dollar economy, next to nations like Brazil !!

 

[acetophenol]

Okay you had your daily doze of 'teaching us how international politics works'. Scoot !




We are putting up another satellite this year. Lets kick start the economy, extract our minerals, open our market and stop fighting other people's wars.

Pakistan ought to be a trillion dollar economy, next to nations like Brazil !!

of all the people,you had to say this moderator.

 

[Chronos]

In International arena,there are no brothers,no friends,no enemies,just a bunch of nations trying to safeguard their own interests.

Haven't seen you in a long time buddy.

Oh and stop trolling the Chinese

You know how nefarious they are

 

[acetophenol]

Haven't seen you in a long time buddy.

Oh and stop trolling the Chinese

You know how nefarious they are

I wasn't trying to troll goddamit
I was simply surprised to see a different nation's flag on a chinese carrier. Other nation's usually don't do it! Its must have been due to the good relation b/w china and pak.

 

[shuntmaster]

Paksat-1R was designed, built and launched into orbit by China. Even the financing of the project was by China..

Specification

The Paksat-1R satellite is based on the DFH-4 platform, with a launch mass around 5,200 kg. The satellite will be positioned at 38.0 degrees East, replacing the Paksat-1 (23779 1996-006A), which was launched as Palapa-C on January 31, 1996, by an Atlas-IIAS (AC-126) from Cape Canaveral’s LC-36B launch complex. Paksat-1R was manufactured by the China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC), after being ordered in October 15, 2008 – with a contract signed with the China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC). The PakSat-1R contract was the third communications satellite contract signed by China’s space industry with international customers. It is also China’s first satellite in-orbit delivery contract signed with an Asian customer.

The satellite will support all conventional and modern Fixed Satellite Service (FSS) applications, with a total of up to 30 transponders: 18 in Ku-band and 12 in C-band. To ensure high degree of reliability/availability of the system, two fully redundant Satellite Ground Control Stations (SGCS) were established in Karachi and Lahore, one to act as the Main and the other as Backup respectively.

The DFH-4 (DongFangHong-4) platform is a large telecommunications satellite platform – a new generation of hardware based on high output power and communication capacity, ranking alongside international advanced satellite platforms. The applications for the DFH-4 platform aren’t limited to high capacity broadcast communication satellites and can be used to tracking and data relay satellites, regional mobile communication satellites, etc. The platform comprises propulsion module, service module and solar array. It has a payload capacity of 588 kg and an output power of 10.5 kW by the end of its lifetime. Its design lifetime is 15 years and its reliability by the end of its lifetime is more than 0.78.

Based on versatility, inheritance, expandability and promptness principles and mature technology, the platform will meet the needs of international and domestic large communication satellite mark

 

[Chronos]

I wasn't trying to troll goddamit
I was simply surprised to see a different nation's flag on a chinese carrier. Other nation's usually don't do it! Its must have been due to the good relation b/w china and pak.

China simply does not have 'good relations'

They will support any mass murdering thug if it means their support.

That is why the Chinese are successful my friend, they don't ask questions and simply trade and go.

No baggage, no interference.

Unlike the U.S.

 

[shuntmaster]

Never knew that China used to have Pak flag on their launch vehicle!

Its a convention to paint flags of the satellite operating countries on the launch vehicle.. Indian flag and ISRO logo are painted onto the heatshield of the Ariane rockets whenever an Indian satellite is launched...

 

[Cyberian]

That's not the first satellite to be operated by Pakistan... Alhamdu'lillah, it's the fourth:

BADR-1: Launched - 16th July 1990

BADR-B: Launched - 10th December 2001

PAKSAT-1: Leased - 6th August 2002

PAKSAT-1R: Launched - 11th August 2007

iCUBE-1: Launched 21st November 2013