{"id":70909,"date":"2018-07-09T13:21:50","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T08:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=70909"},"modified":"2018-07-09T13:48:47","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T08:48:47","slug":"pakistan-on-monday-launched-two-indigenously-manufactured-satellites-into-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=70909","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan launches two indigenously manufactured satellites into orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ISLAMABAD:\u00a0In a major development, Pakistan on Monday launched two indigenously manufactured satellites into orbit using a Chinese launch vehicle, local media quoting officials reported<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The satellites\u00a0were launched onboard a Chinese Long March (LM-2C) rocket. One of the satellites launched is a\u00a0remote sensing satellite (PRSS1)\u00a0\u2013 a dual-purpose Earth observational and optical satellite.\u00a0With the PRSS1, Pakistan has become one of the few countries to have its own remote sensing satellite in orbit.<\/p>\n<p>The second test satellite launched is a PAK-TES-1A, developed by SUPARCO to enhance satellite manufacture capabilities in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The satellites were transported to China as the country lacks the infrastructure to launch objects<\/p>\n<p>In June, Foreign Office Spokesperson Mohammad Faisal said the PakTES-1A was an indigenously developed remote sensing satellite that weighed 285 kg. He added that the satellite will be launched at 610 km sun-synchronous orbit in July, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>From concept till launch, Pakistan Technology Evaluation Satellite (PakTES-1A) is a fully indigenous project of the scientists and engineers of Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (Suparco).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; ISLAMABAD:\u00a0In a major development, Pakistan on Monday launched two indigenously manufactured satellites into orbit using a Chinese launch vehicle, local media quoting officials reported. The satellites\u00a0were launched onboard a Chinese Long March (LM-2C) rocket. One of the satellites launched is a\u00a0remote sensing satellite (PRSS1)\u00a0\u2013 a dual-purpose Earth observational and optical satellite.\u00a0With the PRSS1, Pakistan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70909"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70923,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70909\/revisions\/70923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}