Pakistan launches its first satellite for aerospace research

Pakistan launched here its first locally developed satellite CubeSat1 for aerospace research, the Pakistani Institute of Aerospace Science announced here today. CubeSat1, the statement added, has been launched from a Russian base of Yazni, on a Diniber launching rocket. The satellite, according to the statement, has been locally developed to culminate 10-year endeavor, to meet Pakistan national needs to cope with world scientific state of the art, in aerospace science. The satellite will, also, give the institute a hand to monitor space physics, biological and chemical as well as images and information related to space research, the statement concluded.