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If @The Deterrent is correct then Pakistan will likely develop something based off China's Naga L http://www.b14643.de/Spacerockets_1/China/Naga-L/Description/Text.htm which China wants to export to third countries or team up with one of China's new state backed commercial SLV launching...

PRSS-O1/PakTes-1A due to be launched imminiently today. China has issued Notams. Pakistani dignitaries are reportedly on site to witness this inevitable moment.

I didn't say there was anything wrong in outsourcing? It makes financial sense for very heavy satellites. Pakistan is no where near having a GTO capability.

There has been a lot of speculation recently about Pakistans upcoming satellite launches and why these are not being indigenously launched by a Pakistani space launch vehicle. Here are some clarifications. PRSS-O1 (The O is for optical) is an Electro Optical satellite manufactured by CGWIC. It...

Some highlights of PSDP 2018 -2019 http://pc.gov.pk/uploads/archives/PSDP_2018-19_Final.pdf PAKISTAN ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION National Tokomak Fusion Program - Hopefully this is for an actual Tokamak reactor like China's HT-6B/6M or HT-7. Expenditure up to 30.06.2018 - 100.000 (Rupees...

''The Aryans did not come from India'' No shit lolll

I wonder what size the torpedo tubes are. Israeli dolphin class subs have 6 × 533 mm and 4 × 650 mm diameter ones. If I'm not mistaken China's Type 032 submarine Qing class testbed submarine had 1 × 650 mm, 1 x 533 mm torpedo tubes 2 SLBM VLS and 4 Cruise missile VLS, Ideally, you'd want a...

I know PARR-1 isn't run continuously, but even research reactors cannot run indefinitely, and due to engineering issues (metal fatigue from neutron bombardment) will at some point need to be replaced. Yes could be labs. Though it is very close to existing reactor; I guess we'll wait and see.

Anyone have any idea what's being built at Nilore next to PARR-1? I'm guessing that since PARR-1 is very old now (nearly 55 years), it's ready for shutdown and maybe they're building a replacement? In the last PDSP there was also money allocated for a very small Tokamak fusion reactor similar to...

The PRSS is or was scheduled to be launched In March 2018. The Pakistan Technology Evaluation Satellite or PakTES-1 which is to be launched with PRSS-1 does NOT include a SAR payload! Although, from what I have learnt (from secret sources) is that PakTes-1 was developed largely by Suparco but...

I said it was BASED on the Agni VI, technologically, and it is. It obviously isn't the Agni-VI because it's a configured for an SLV role.

The SSLV consists of three solid fuel stages and a bi-propellant RCS/Velocity trimming module. It has a principal diameter of 2 m and a length of 34 m with a lift-off mass of~116 t.

http://www.unoosa.org/documents/pdf/psa/activities/2017/SouthAfrica/slides/Presentation48.pdf Pakistan National Student Satellite Program is in the Engineering Model phase. Likely completion is 2020 on an indigenous SLV (a pakistan version similar to China's new KT-2...

What Pakistan really needs is a slcm equivalent of the Chinese CJ-10

National Tokomak Fusion Program ia back in PSDP! Pakistan's metallic (not GLAST!) Tokamak reactor is back in the 2017 -2018 budget, albeit with 'unapproved status. Total cost is 423.509 million RP with 100 milion to be spent 2017 -2018. Expect it to be similar to China's now decommissioned...

Oh yeah. That's why I said the KZ-1A/DF-21D/DF-26 usesa new L-SpaB-140B, as oppose to the M-18/Ababeel/S-II/S-III that probably use an older gen L-SpaB-140. 'First stage motor is 1,40 meters in diameter, having a total mass of 16,621 kg, a burn time of 65 seconds and an impulse of 2,352 Ns/kg...

Actually, KZ-1A's first and second stage is 1.4m Actually the first and second stages of the KZ-1A is 1.4m. It uses the L-SpaB-140B, although the Shaheen II series probably use a derivative of the older less powerful L-SpaB-140A motors. You're right that KZ-1A can lift 200 kg to a SSO...

Good points. I just can't see where the technology or money to finance this is going to come from? Always expect Pakistan to go for the cheapest/easiest solution. Plus, external parties aren't going to share sensitive technology with Suparco regardless.

@TheDeterrent Do you really think that? If you look at similar systems around the world, Brazil's VLM Nova, China's KZ-1 and KZ-11 and Israel's Shavit - II they all follow a similar cost sharing/cost effective approach vis-a-vis missiles/SLV. Also the Ababeel should be able to lift more than 100...

With the new added third stage. We can now all be confident that the Ababeel missile is the basic configuration for Pakistan's SLV. It can probably lift a payload of around 150 - 250 kg (maybe 290?) into LEO covering about 250 - 500 Km. A small hydrazine fueled fourth stage could be added like...