China to launch two satellites for its so called ‘economic partner’ Pakistan in June

NewsBharati    04-Apr-2018
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Beijing, April 4: The China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALVT) has stated that it is ready to launch 2 remote sensing satellites for Pakistan in June.

According to Xinhua, It will be the first international commercial launch for a Long March-2C rocket for around 18 years after it carried Motorola's Iridium satellites into orbit in 1999.

The rocket will also carry the China-France Oceanography Satellite into space in September this year, CALVT said. The satellite will monitor ocean wind and waves.

Long March-2C rockets are mainly used to send satellites into low Earth or Sun-synchronous orbits.

Interestingly, this is isn't the first time that China has launched satellites for Pakistan. Pakistan's 'PAKSAT-1R' was launched by China in 2011. It's known that Pakistan and China had inked a $50 billion deal for the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).

The CPEC project comprises a network of railways, roads and pipelines that would connect Pakistan’s port city of Gwadar in the province of Balochistan, with the Chinese city of Kashgar in landlocked Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR).