Tags: Artificialsatellite, Satellite.
Badr-1 (Urdu: بدر-۱ meaning New Moon-1) was the first artificial and the first digital communication satellite launched by Pakistan’s supreme national space authority — the SUPARCO — in 1990. The Badr-I was Pakistan’s first indigenously developed and manufactured digital communications and an experimental artificial satellite which was launched into low Earth orbit by Pakistan on July 16 1990 through a Chinese rocket carrier.