{"id":35785,"date":"2024-05-10T14:25:53","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T09:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=35785"},"modified":"2024-05-10T16:41:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T11:41:18","slug":"pakistans-icube-qamar-sends-first-image-from-moon-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/technology\/pakistans-icube-qamar-sends-first-image-from-moon-orbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan\u2019s iCube Qamar sends first image from moon orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan\u2019s lunar satellite, iCube Qamar, has sent the first picture from the moon orbit after completing three rounds of the moon.<\/p>\n

The iCube Qamar was launched on board China\u2019s Chang\u2019e-6 from Hainan, China, on May 3.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the spokesperson of Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO), the first image taken by iCube Qamar has been received. iCube Qamar has sent the first image from the moon’s orbit after 7 days.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to IST, the first image obtained from iCube Qamar was given to the Pakistani diplomat in Beijing by the China National Space Administration (CNSA).<\/span><\/p>\n

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The first lunar image captured by Pakis\u00adtan\u2019s lunar satellite iCube-Qamar shows the moon. [Suparco\/CNSA]<\/figcaption><\/figure>The Institute of Space Technology (IST) team working on the iCube Qamar mission along with Pakistan’s Ambassador to China participated in the ceremony held at CNSA on the success of the iCube Qamar mission.<\/span><\/p>\n

READ MORE:\u00a0LIVE: Launch of Pakistan’s historic ICUBE-Q lunar mission<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

iCube Qamar entered the Lunar orbit on May 8 and is equipped with two cameras, which have pictures of the moon from a distance of\u00a0200 kilometers.<\/span><\/p>\n

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One of the first images captured by iCube-Qamar shows the sun shining brightly. [Suparco\/CNSA]<\/figcaption><\/figure>The satellite iCube-Q has been designed and developed by IST in collaboration with China\u2019s Shanghai University SJTU and Pakistan\u2019s national space agency SUPARCO.<\/span><\/p>\n

iCube-Qamar was carried aboard China’s Chang’e 6 spacecraft, which is the sixth in a series of China\u2019s lunar exploration missions.<\/p>\n

Chang’e 6, China\u2019s Lunar Mission will touch down on the Moon\u2019s far side to collect samples from the surface and return to Earth for research. The mission holds significance for Pakistan as it will also take a Pakistan CubeSat Satellite iCube-Q, developed by IST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan\u2019s lunar satellite, iCube Qamar, has sent the first picture from the moon orbit after completing three rounds of the moon. The iCube Qamar was launched on board China\u2019s Chang\u2019e-6 from Hainan, China, on May 3. According to the spokesperson of Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO), the first image taken by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":35786,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13446,2,8],"tags":[16642,16644,16643,16199],"class_list":["post-35785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-pakistan","category-technology","tag-icube-qamar-first-moon-image","tag-ist-icube-qamar","tag-moon-image-of-icube-qamar","tag-suparco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}