China has launched Pakistan’s intelligence satellite. Along with this, it also launched two of its own satellites. Let us tell you that through this satellite, Pakistan will be able to monitor agriculture, city planning, environment and defense sectors.
Beijing/New Delhi. China on Sunday launched two of its satellites, besides a Pakistani remote sensing satellite, on the same rocket. According to Beijing time, this rocket was launched from the Commercial Aerospace Innovation Pilot Zone in northwest China at 11:33 am. Three satellites have been launched in this mission, in which Pakistan’s Remote Sensing Satellite (PRSS-2), besides China’s own AIRSAT-03 and AIRSAT-04, have been launched.
China designed Pakistan’s intelligence satellite
According to reports, the satellites were successfully placed in the planned orbit. This satellite is also very important for Pakistan because till now it did not have any intelligence spy satellite of its own. PRSS-2 is Pakistan’s remote-sensing satellite with modern technology, which has been designed by China itself. Through this, monitoring can be done in agriculture, city planning, environmental monitoring, natural disaster management and defense sector.
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China launched PRSS-1 in 2018
PRSS-2 is said to be an advanced version of Pakistan’s first satellite PRSS-1, which was launched in 2018. Defense experts believe that this satellite will strengthen Pakistan’s space-based intelligence and border surveillance capabilities. Let us tell you that this is the third Pakistani satellite launched by China this year. Earlier, it had launched Pakistan Remote Sensing Satellite (PRSS-1) in July and PRSC-EO1 in January. China has been helping Pakistan in launching satellites in recent years, expanding their alliance in the space sector. Last year, China launched a multi-mission communication satellite for Pakistan. Even in 2018, China had sent two Pakistani satellites into orbit. One of these was PRSS-1, which was the country’s first optical remote sensing satellite and the other was PakTES-1A, which was a small observation vehicle.
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