pakistan to launch its first satellite in August 2011

[mt_dilber]

Pakistan will launch its first endogenously developed PAKSAT-1R satellite on August 14, 2011. Dr. Suddle, current director of SUPARCO, does not rule out the possibility that SUPARCO may just be waiting for the right moment to test Pakistans first satellite launch vehicle, rumored to be named "Taimur".

 

[Jack Sparrow]

Now wait for the comments from jealous Indians.

 

[swisslaw]

suparco is claimng this for the last decade!

only bla bla bla and bluff!

suparco's recent achievment is only; new internet webpage and some silly rumours on it in order to misguide pakistanis and make them fee like world conqueror...

 

[sam123]

Good news bro...But our SUPARCO budget is not even 50 million $...
A satellite costs 250million $...

so lets not expect too much from them...General musharraf cut wings of suparco and ensured west that pakistan is not developing ICBM and SLV..

Anway we have access to all chinese technology and developing SLV needs billion $ of investnment....we should only make satellites and use chinese cheap vehicles as transportation.

[MENTION=19273]swisslaw[/MENTION]

Please apply for indian passport !!

@Dilber
Taimur was scrapped by traitor musharraf..now we dont have 1 billion $ to build the launching site....China wont sell such technology to us since its bread and butter for them...

 

[swisslaw]

Good news bro...But our SUPARCO budget is not even 50 million $...
A satellite costs 250million $...

so lets not expect too much from them...General musharraf cut wings of suparco and ensured west that pakistan is not developing ICBM and SLV..

Anway we have access to all chinese technology and developing SLV needs billion $ of investnment....we should only make satellites and use chinese cheap vehicles as transportation.

[MENTION=19273]swisslaw[/MENTION]

Please apply for indian passport !!

@Dilber
Taimur was scrapped by traitor musharraf..now we dont have 1 billion $ to build the launching site....China wont sell such technology to us since its bread and butter for them...

i have swiss passport , i dont need any other...

 

[rakeem]

No need to jump, this satellite is being launched[by China for Pakistan] to replace the PAKSAT-1[which was also launched by China for Pakistan], its a communication sattelite, and this has nothing to do with Pak's budget, the funding is also being provided by China:

China to help Pakistan launch satellite August 14

Staff Report
2011-05-21

BEIJING - Pakistan and China will jointly launch a communication satellite into orbit on Pakistani Independence Day, August 14 to replace the existing SAT-1, Dawn reported May 21.

Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani visited China`s Academy of Space Technology (CAST) May 20.

An official said the satellites launch would be a symbol of Sino-Pakistani friendship, media reported. the satellite was made by CAST under a 2008 agreement with an EXIM Bank of China soft-term credit of 86.5 million RMB (US$ 13,311,171), media reported.



http://centralasiaonline.com/cocoon...riefs/caii/newsbriefs/2011/05/21/newsbrief-04

 

[mt_dilber]

Good news bro...But our SUPARCO budget is not even 50 million $...
A satellite costs 250million $...

so lets not expect too much from them...General musharraf cut wings of suparco and ensured west that pakistan is not developing ICBM and SLV..

Anway we have access to all chinese technology and developing SLV needs billion $ of investnment....we should only make satellites and use chinese cheap vehicles as transportation.

[MENTION=19273]swisslaw[/MENTION]

Please apply for indian passport !!

@Dilber
Taimur was scrapped by traitor musharraf..now we dont have 1 billion $ to build the launching site....China wont sell such technology to us since its bread and butter for them...

there are rumors that china in backing it.

 

[sam123]

there are rumors that china in backing it.

They will not give SLV technology...its business for them..and there are something with money..

even country like UK,Germany,Spain,Italy,Sweden dont have it..

Iran has some SLV but its totally dependent upon russian aid ....they sent some mosquito,rat,cat and dogs to die in space ...

 

[mt_dilber]

They will not give SLV technology...its business for them..and there are something with money..

Chinese are very intelligent, they know business, there are always strings attached but most of them does not harm
Pak interests as well, e.g giving Gawadar port to china.

 

[sam123]

Chinese are very intelligent, they know business, there are always strings attached but most of them does not harm
Pak interests as well, e.g giving Gawadar port to china.

we have nothing much to offer ...and SLV technology is 100 billion $ business...so we should not expect much help from them...Iran got some help from russia because they gave
10 billion $ oil money to ruskits :)

Chinese have backed off from gwadar...they fear of american and indian intervention in gwadar if we give them bases..moreover ,they dont want to invest 3-4 billion $ to build gwadar in such unstable situation ...And lastly ,Gwadar port is leased to singapore port association ..And if we cancel their contract,we might have to pay 1 +billion $ in loss to them...Their lease expires on 2040...so we have to wait till 2040 or pay them heavy fine ,and later lease it to china..all of them looks highly improbable in todays context...


i just browsed through asian space race..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_space_race

Big Three
[edit]China
This section requires expansion.
China's space program has been in the spotlight since 2003, when it started manned space launches, becoming the first Asian country and the third overall to independently send a man into space.[4] China successfully performed an EVA in September 2008. China has developed a sizable family of successful Long March rockets. It has launched two lunar orbiters, Chang'e 1 and Chang'e 2 and intends to land a rover on the moon and conduct a sample return mission. In 2011, China plans to embark on a program to established a manned space station starting with the launch of Tiangong 1. China also expects to send its first Mars probe in 2011. As well as national pride there are commercial drivers such as launching of satellites for communications, weather forecast and research of Earth's atmosphere.
It also has collaborative projects with Russia, ESA and Brazil and has launched commercial satellites for other countries.
Some analysts suggest that the Chinese space program is linked to the nation's efforts at developing advanced military technology.[13] In 2007, China used an anti-satellite missile to destroy a defunct weather satellite, the Feng Yun 1-C, orbiting 528 miles (850 km) above Earth. The resulting explosion sent a wave of debris hurtling through space at more than 6 miles per second.[14] On 21 February 2008 the US Navy destroyed a disabled spy satellite USA 193. The US denied the destruction of the satellite was a response to an anti-satellite test carried out by China in 2007.[15]
[edit]India
India's interest in space travel had a modest beginning in the early 1960s, when scientists launched a small rocket above Kerala.[16] Now India has its own space launch vehicles, has launched several satellites, sent a probe to the moon and demonstrated re-entry technology. Initially India's space program was not taken as a geopolitical weapon of pride but under Vikram Sarabhai focussed on practical uses of space in increasing standards of living. Thus the impetus was on putting remote sensing and communications satellites into orbit. This has changed in the recent past.[17] The main shifts took place under two administrations. The first was that of Indira Gandhi, when India sent its first human in space, Rakesh Sharma, through Soviet Intercosmos Program. Then there was a long gap before the second shift, which was during the administration in India under Atal Behari Vajpayee. Just a few days after China said that it would send a human into orbit in the second half of 2003, Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee publicly urged his country's scientists to work towards sending a man to the Moon.[18] Chandrayaan-1, India's first unmanned lunar mission was launched on October 2008.[19] The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is planning its 2nd moon mission, Chandrayaan-2, in 2013.[20] India expects a manned space mission by 2015[21] that will make the country a fourth space power.The Indian Space Research Organisation had begun preparations for a mission to Mars.[22]
[edit]Japan


The H-IIA F11 launch vehicle lifts off from Tanegashima Space Center in Japan.
Japan has been cooperating with the United States on missile defence since 1999. North Korean nuclear and Chinese military programs represent a serious issue for Japan's foreign relations.[23] Japan is now working on military and civilian space technologies, developing missile defence systems, new generations of military spy satellites, and planning for manned stations on the Moon.[24] Japan started to construct spy satellites after North Korea test fired a Taepodong missile over Japan in 1998, although the North Korean government claimed the missile was merely launching a satellite to space accusing Japan of causing an arms race.[25] The Japanese constitution adopted after World War II limits military activities to defensive operations. On May 2007 Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called for a bold review of the Japanese Constitution to allow the country to take a larger role in global security and foster a revival of national pride.[26] Japan has not yet developed its own manned spacecraft and has not adopted acting program of developing of one. Some time ago project of Japan space shuttle HOPE-X launched by conventional space launcher H-II was developed during several years but was postponed. Then the more simple manned capsule Fuji was proposed but not adopted. Pioneer projects of single-stage to orbit, reusable launch vehicle horizontal takeoff and landing ASSTS and vertical takeoff and landing Kankoh-maru also exists but have not been adopted. More conservative new (JAXA manned spacecraft) project is expected to launch by 2025 as part of Japanese plans of manned missions to Moon. A science journalist such as Shin'ya Matsuura is doubtful about the Japanese manned moon project and expects the project is a euphemism for participation in the American Constellation program,[27] same as the Japanese manned space program such as ISS. On the other hand, JAXA planned to send a Humanoid robot (such as ASIMO) as an astronaut to the moon.[27]