Tags: Artificialsatellite, Satellite.
The Badr-B (Urdu: بدر-۲; also known as Badr-II meaning New Moon-2) is the second spacecraft and the first earth observation satellite launched into Earth orbit on December 10 2001 at 0915 hrs by the SUPARCO — Pakistan’s national space agency. Badr-B is a microsatellite with a mass of ~70 kg and contained the supercomputerized system to conduct the studies on the gravity gradient.
