Posted: Sun, Aug 3, 2025, 12:01 PM ET (1601 GMT)
China launched a remote sensing satellite for Pakistan late Wednesday. A Kuaizhou-1A launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center at 10:00 pm EDT (0200 GMT Thursday), putting into orbit the Pakistan Remote Sensing Satellite (PRSS?01). This was the second flight of the modified Kuaizhou-1A, with upgrades to its first and second stages as well as a redesigned payload fairing to improve its payload performance. PRSS?01 was developed by Pakistan’s space agency, SUPARCO, in collaboration with a Chinese organization, and joins two other Pakistani satellites to provide civil remote sensing data.

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