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Badr-1, Pakistan's first indigenously developed satellite, was launched in 1990 from China aboard a Long March rocket. The satellite successfully completed its designed life.
[edit] Mission goals
- acquiring know-how for indigenous development of satellites
- creating an infrastructure for future satellite development activities
- testing the performance of indigenously developed satellite subsystems in space environment
- performing experiments in real-time voice and data communications between two user ground stations
- demonstrating store-and-forward type message communication
- educating the country's academic, scientific and amateur community in the tracking and use of low-earth-orbiting satellites
[edit] Configuration
| Structure |
26-Facet polyhedron |
| Thermal Design |
passive |
| Mass |
52 kg |
| Solar Panels |
17 square facets |
| Average Conditioned Power |
12.5 watts |
| Down Link |
VHF |
| Up Link |
UHF |
| Telemetry Channels |
32 |
| Sensors |
temperature, current, voltage |
| Data Transmission Rates |
1200,600,300,150 baud |
| DCE Memory Bank |
8 kilobyte |
| Launch Date |
July 16, 1990 |
| Reentry Date |
December 9, 1990 |
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