Following the start of its relations satellite on a Chinese rocket, Pakistan plans to put a remote sensing satellite into space later this year as part of efforts to create a sophisticated surveillance system by 2014.
The Pak Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission has drawn up plans for making the Remote Sensing Satellite System (RSSS) in the next three years to meet “national and international user supplies in the field of satellite imagery”, PTI quoted SUPARCO Secretary Arshad H Siraj as saying.
RSSS will be a “progressive and sustainable programme”, he said.
Initially, SUPARCO will start an optical satellite with a 2.5 metre panchromatic camera (PAN) into a 700-km sun-synchronous orbit by the end of 2011.
This will be followed by a sequence of optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites in upcoming.
Siraj said the planned system will be useful in exploiting the potential of space technologies for surveying natural resources and monitoring the environment.
RSSS will also be “significant in executing application projects of public significance (and) transfer technology to users in public and private sectors as remote sensing along with its allied technologies has become an industry in itself,” he said.
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