{"id":156922,"date":"2024-05-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pressarabia.qa\/?guid=6181f6dce6686ba10acfefd6fd078e2b"},"modified":"2024-05-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T00:00:00","slug":"pakistan-launches-first-satellite-to-capture-pictures-of-lunar-surface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pressarabia.qa\/pakistan-launches-first-satellite-to-capture-pictures-of-lunar-surface\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Launches First Satellite to Capture Pictures of Lunar Surface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n Pakistan successfully launched its first satellite mission iCube Qamar to the moon on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The ICUBE-Q satellite was launched on board the Chinese Chang E6 spacecraft from Hainan Province in southern China, Pakistani Institute of Space Technology (IST) reported in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The statement added that the satellite was developed in collaboration between the IST, China&#8217;s Shanghai University and Pakistan&#8217;s national space agency SUPARCO.<\/p>\n<p>The key objective of this mission is to facilitate scientific research and advance technology and educational initiatives for space exploration, IST highlighted.<\/p>\n<p>Two optical cameras are carried by the ICUBE-Q orbiter to take pictures of the lunar surface. ICUBE-Q has now been successfully integrated into the Chang&#8217;e6 mission after qualification and testing. China&#8217;s lunar exploration mission, Chang&#8217;e 6, is the sixth in the series.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Qatar News Agency<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Pakistan successfully launched its first satellite mission iCube Qamar to the moon on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The ICUBE-Q satellite was launched on board the Chinese Chang E6 spacecraft from Hainan Province in southern China, Pakistani Institute of Space Technology&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pakistan Launches First Satellite to Capture Pictures of Lunar Surface - Press Arabia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pressarabia.qa\/pakistan-launches-first-satellite-to-capture-pictures-of-lunar-surface\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pakistan Launches First Satellite to Capture Pictures of Lunar Surface - Press Arabia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Pakistan successfully launched its first satellite mission iCube Qamar to the moon on Friday. 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