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Badr-1 (Urdu: بدر-۱, meaning Full Moon-A) was the first artificial and the first digital communications satellite launched by Pakistan's national space authority — the SUPARCO — in 1990. [1] The Badr-1 was Pakistan's first indigenously developed and manufactured digital communications and an experimental artificial satellite which was ...
Badr-B was the second spacecraft and the first Earth observation satellite launched by Pakistan. It was placed into Sun-synchronous orbit on December 10, 2001, at 5:19 PM UTC. [2] The Badr program was decommissioned in 2012 after Badr-B completed its successful mission. The Pakistan Remote Sensing Satellite has replaced the Badr program since ...
Pakistan is the 33rd largest country in the world with a total area of 881,913 km2 (340,509 sq mi). It has borders with India, Afghanistan, China, and Iran, and is home to the Himalayas, Karakoram, and Hindukush mountains, as well as the Indus River and the Thar Desert.
In February 2009, The Times (London) claimed that it had obtained Google Earth images from 2006 that showed Predator drones parked outside a hangar at the end of the runway at Shamsi. The Times investigation was in response to a statement by US Senator Dianne Feinstein that the CIA was basing its drone aircraft in Pakistan.
Google Earth is a web and computer program that renders a 3D globe based on satellite imagery, aerial photography, and GIS data. Users can explore the Earth, add their own data, view photos, Street View, and more, but also face privacy and security issues.
The JF-17 Thunder is a lightweight, single-engine, multirole combat aircraft developed by China and Pakistan. It is a fourth-generation replacement for the A-5C, F-7P/PG, Mirage III, and Mirage V aircraft in the Pakistan Air Force.
Kunyang Chhish is the 21st highest mountain in the world. It is also notable for its rise above local terrain: for example, it rises almost 4,000 metres (13,000 ft) above its southern base camp on the Kunyang Glacier, and it rises 5,500 metres (3.4 mi) above the Hunza valley in about 33 kilometres (108,000 ft).
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