{"id":62784,"date":"2025-01-17T15:54:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T10:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=62784"},"modified":"2025-01-17T15:54:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T10:54:43","slug":"pakistans-indigenous-prsc-eo-1-satellite-launched-into-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/technology\/pakistans-indigenous-prsc-eo-1-satellite-launched-into-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan&#8217;s indigenous PRSC EO-1 satellite launched into space"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-473dfed elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-content\" data-id=\"473dfed\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"theme-post-content.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<p>KARACHI: Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission&#8217;s (SUPARCO) first indigenous multi-spectral <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/technology\/pakistans-indigenous-satellite-eo-1-to-be-launched-on-jan-17\/\">Electro-Optical<\/a> (EO-1) satellite launched\u00a0on Friday at 9:07\u202fam (Pakistan Time).<\/p>\n<p>The state-of-the-art earth observation satellite, PRSC-EO-1, was launched via a <span class=\"r-b88u0q\">Chinese <\/span>Long March-2D carrier <span class=\"r-b88u0q\">rocket <\/span>from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in China, SUPARCO spokespersons said.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan&#8217;s satellite along with two others, namely Tianlu-1 and Lantan-1, entered its planned orbit successfully.<\/p>\n<p>The official launch ceremony was held at the SUPARCO Complex in Karachi earlier today, and Pakistanis witnessed the satellite\u2019s journey into space live.<\/p>\n<p>PRSC-EO1 is the first of a series of three optical remote sensing satellites for Pakistan, which will join the country\u2019s existing remote sensing satellites, PRSS-1 and PakTES-1A, in orbit.<\/p>\n<p>Equipped with high-resolution multi-spectral imaging sensors capable of sub-0.5m resolution, <span class=\"r-b88u0q\">PAK-EO1<\/span> can capture near real-time, ultra-high-resolution Earth imagery.<\/p>\n<p>This multi-purpose satellite will provide critical data to various sectors, including disaster management, military applications such as border control and troop movement monitoring, and numerous other strategic and civilian uses.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<p>In urban development, it will allow infrastructure expansion monitoring, urban sprawl control, and support for city and regional planning activities.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, it will provide monitoring of environmental calamities, including floods, landslides, earthquakes, land erosion, and deforestation.<\/p>\n<p>The satellite would provide monitoring facilities for the extraction and safeguarding of the very natural resources such as minerals, oil-and-gas fields, glacier response, and surface and groundwater.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission&#8217;s (SUPARCO) first indigenous multi-spectral Electro-Optical (EO-1) satellite launched\u00a0on Friday at 9:07\u202fam (Pakistan Time). The state-of-the-art earth observation satellite, PRSC-EO-1, was launched via a Chinese Long March-2D carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in China, SUPARCO spokespersons said. Pakistan&#8217;s satellite along with two others, namely Tianlu-1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":62785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[25840,25842,25841],"class_list":["post-62784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-eo-1-satellite-launched","tag-prsc-eo-1","tag-satellite-launched"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62784","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=62784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62786,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62784\/revisions\/62786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}