The China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALVT) will launch two remote sensing satellites for Pakistan in June this year.
It will make it the first international commercial launch for a Long March-2C rocket after it carried Motorola's Iridium satellites into orbit in 1999.
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan has launched an ambitious satellite program as part of ongoing efforts to wean itself off dependence on foreign-owned assets for civil and military applications.
Pakistan’s domestic space agency, the Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission, or SUPARCO, will receive a budget of just more than $40 million for fiscal 2018-2019.
Of this, some $22 million has been allocated for space centers related to the Pakistan Multi-Mission Satellite in Islamabad, Karachi and Lahore, plus the establishment of a research center in Karachi