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Pakistan to launch first lunar orbit mission on Friday
May 02, 2024

The Institute of Space Technology of Pakistan would launch a student cube satellite ‘ICUBE-Qamar’ into the lunar orbit aboard China’s Chang’E-6 Mission from Wenchang space launch site, Hainan in China tomorrow.

The launch activity would be telecast live on IST website as well as Institute’s social media accounts.

The ICUBE-Q has two cameras as payload for imaging Lunar Surface, imaging Earth from Lunar Orbit and Moon and Earth together.