PAKSAT MM1 - SCI &
TECH
News: Pak To Send Second Satellite
With China's Help For Digital Transformation
What's in the news?
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Pakistan's Multi-Mission Communication Satellite, also known as PAKSAT MM1, will be launched on May 30.
Key takeaways:
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The Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research
Commission (Suparco) described it as a “stepping stone in the transformation of
the country into Digital Pakistan.”
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The launch will be conducted at the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre (XSLC),
China.
PAKSAT MM1:
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This satellite project is the hallmark of technological cooperation between China and Pakistan.
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Total deliverable capacity of Ka-Band is 10Gbps
covering whole Pakistan, there is no steerable beam in Ka-HTS payload.
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Maximum throughput achievable on a single beam is
approximately 1 Gbps.
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User beams are fixed and cannot be steered over any
particular area.
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For PakSat-MM1 HTS, three Gateway beams have been
designed over Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad with gateway beams of 0.08°.
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PakSat-MM1 HTS has been designed in such a way that
one GW can handle all the traffic of 11 user beams.
Go back to basics:
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Earlier this year, Pakistan celebrated the
successful launch of its mini-satellite
'iCube-Qamar' as part of China's Chang'e-6 lunar mission.
● Pakistan’s maiden lunar satellite iCube-Qamar transmitted the first images from orbit recently, after completing three rounds of the moon.